[Athen] [EXTERNAL] - Pros and cons of Able Player

[Hayman, Douglass]

Steve,

I used to share an office with Terrill Thompson at UW.  He'd used that when he'd come down from Bellingham to work on the Seattle UW campus.

Terrill helped create the AblePlayer and could speak to that implementation challenge.  I think that at some point UWTV struggled to implement that while many other campus units used YouTube.  Might have been more of a staffing resource issue at that time as they went from a more fully staffed group to one who contracted it on a per-project basis for films.

I went through the Trusted Tester training and certification and they use AblePlayer.  And Deque University which I'm enrolled in also uses AblePlayer so one of those two organizations could speak to the process as well.



Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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(360) 475-7632



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Can anyone share their experience of implementing Able Player? I have tried to get several of our clients to use it, but all have refused, preferring to stick with the awful embedded YouTube player despite all its WCAG non-conformances and poor user experience. I am keen to hear what is good, bad, easy and difficult with Able Player.

I had a look at the Accessible Media showcase<https://online.pcc.edu/shared/Example_Pages/AccessibleTech.html> that Kaela Parks mentioned in another thread. That's interesting because it contains a video that is hosted on YouTube, playing in Able Player, which is important because our clients don't want to change their video hosting. However, I was disappointed to see that it still contains a lot of YouTube nastiness such as the Watch Later and Share widgets at the top and the horrible "More videos" overlay that appears when the video ends or is paused. Is it possible to get rid of any of that, ideally all of it?

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