Additional Media Player Features

Let's talk about additional features in media players. I take the W3C Way Perspective videos here as an example, because they have a very complicated media player that has a lot of features.

If we play just a short second. We have this player and if we use the keyboard, we can go there using the tab key.

There we are. Then we can restart the video. We can rewind, we can forward, we can skip through it

using the keyboard, I use the arrow keys here. Then we can move to the volume, which you can also

set using the arrow keys. Then we can make it slower and quicker, which can be useful for

people with cognitive disabilities. That you can like basically make sure that the speed works with

the speed of your brain, which sometimes can be useful. Then you can hide the captions, show the

captions. And one thing that they did here is to have the captions underneath the video so they

don't obscure the video source, which can be useful in some circumstances. And they did that

here. You can show the transcript, which does open at the bottom. And this is actually a movable

set. So you can just go and drag this up. And there you go. And then it scrolls with the content.

And that is also useful. It's a little bit like the TED example, you can also hover it and jump

where you want to jump. There are a lot of more preferences. Like for example, you can set the

captions, how you want them. And the nice thing is if you're using the standard HTML video player

with the standard captions, it will actually reflect the settings that you have on your device.

So if you're on iOS or Mac OS on Windows and you set your captions and your colors, your preferred

colors and your size, then that should be reflected through every video that uses the standard method.

But yeah, and then you can have descriptions, you can audio description, have that automatically

through a screen reader if you want that.

You can have a lot of keyboard commands here, keyboard preferences.

So this is I think this is very in detail.

And you can also say I want my transcript keyboard enabled or I want to not highlight

it because that's distracting to me, then you can save that as well.

So you have a lot of like settings here.

You can also close this window again.

And this is really nice.

And because this is not an audio described video, it doesn't have like an audio described

transcript.

But if you enable audio descriptions, and then go into the transcript, you see that

the audio description is in there basically as a separate fields basically.

So I have the normal narration and then where it changes into audio description, it changes

how it looks.

So, so that doesn't, doesn't work a hundred percent.

That's probably like a buck, but, but yeah, it's pretty, pretty neat to have like all

of that content in one view.

But that's all additional stuff. When you look for WCAG issues, you don't need to look that deep, unfortunately.