I like your new player–we’re looking for one that is accessible to use at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired where I work. Have you seen this player? http://www.perkins.org/webcasts/ Click on one of the webcasts to see it in action.

What I like about this player is the area for closed captions below the video, though I wish their captions were larger. (You can, of course, zoom in on the browser or with Mac’s Leopard.)

Have you considered a closed captioned area? I find that web video is often too small for embedded captions in the lower half of the video to be very effective. Or so it seems.

Closed captions are good for the deaf, hard of hearing, non-native speakers, for people with learning disabilities, and to correct for poor audio quality in the video itself.

Thanks for your work! We look forward to the final product!

I translated your player into Swedish here: http://www.icaaq.com/easy-youtube/

This is easy to implement though, but the trick with truly accessible interfaces is not to listen to all requests and try to add more and more but really add only the bare necessities.

I don’t see a full screen API in the chromeless version of the youtube player (which is what I’m guessing you based this on), so think I know why that’s missing but would like to ask why no ’seek to’/ scrub functionality as in chromeless youtube example: http://is.gd/L0V ?

Was it for usability/ accessibility reasons?

thanks

S.