Thanks for that, Chris. They used to have it play automatically. I will try 
this for sure. i also have the PBS IOS app, which shows an accessible  play 
button for each video.

Thanks,
teresa

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On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Even with click to flash turned off, the video does not autoplay so it's the 
> way PBS has coded their player. I poked at their page code and they are using 
> the standard JWPlayer which has a javascript API. So, you can just go to a 
> video page and then put this in your URL input (command-L to jump there):
> 
> javascript:jwplayer().play()
> 
> That will invoke the play method on the player despite having no controls 
> accessible on the page. For example, this is the video page for the PBS 
> superheroes show:
> 
> http://video.pbs.org/video/2365099227/
> 
> If you go there and then paste in my little javascript trick it should start 
> playing after a few seconds of buffering and such. Why they don't have a 
> button on the page to do the same thing is unclear to me.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 10/16/13 12:40 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>> Right, I can use some flash elements with ClicktoPlugin. Once you interact 
>> with these, there are keyboard shortcuts in ClickToPlugin, but it's not 
>> starting automatically anymore as it used to. There's also a keyboard 
>> shortcut to allow flash on a particular web domain.. I'm going to maybe 
>> check the control lists and see if it's there. I am looking forward to HTML 
>> 5 as a web standard, however. :)
>> 
>> Teresa
>> 
>> "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan
>> 
>> On Oct 16, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> The whole video player and controls are written in Flash which is not 
>>> accessible. Wish sites would stick to using web standards instead of 
>>> proprietary stuff that breaks the web.
>>> 
>>> CB
>>> 
>>> On 10/15/13 2:58 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>>>> Hi, all,
>>>> 
>>>> I used to be able to go to the videos on pbs.org and play them. Now they 
>>>> don't seem to work. I'm using the ClickToPlugin extension for Safari. 
>>>> anyone else have this problem?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> teresa
>>>> 
>>>> "we're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan
>>>> 
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