While I haven't tried the iPhone app, I'm assuming they are using the
iOS video player so that means it's accessible. On the web they seem to
have ignored the native video player and used Flash instead. I know
JWPlayer can do the HTML video player but it can also be turned off or
only used if there is no flash. So it might fix itself if flash is
removed from Safari.
CB
On 10/16/13 1:56 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
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 <cblo...@aol.com> 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 <cblo...@aol.com> 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
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