Category: Geeks r Us
Does anyone know of a accessible way to watch content on the web. I was on a local tv channel, about to watch a news story, but was quite unsuccessful. The volume was way down and I could not find any button to turn it up. It would have been nice to have it in full screen, but I know that is often not possible.
Anyway, I just wondered if I can open these videos with a more accessible player.
Thanks all!
i'd be interested in this as well, only things i am aware of are cnn and bbc
Almost all of these videos are played through flash. If the flash player was accessibly program with labeled buttons and made clickable by the keyboard, then yes. However, most flash programmers don't wish to walk that extra mile to make flash players keyboard accessible with acii labeled buttons. However, it is doable, but from their end.
That being said, there are some sites that offer windows media content/real content. However, your browser is mostly defaulted to playing the video through the browser screen, instead of the player itself. This can be changed by way of the options
in the advanced tab. Once set to play
the media content through the player in a separate window, you can then readily customize the sound as you so wish.
http://www.wtbbl.org/login.aspx, could you explain the internet explorer option further. I went to the advance settings and under multi-media, I turned off the option to play videos in webpages. Is there something else to do? Thank you.
This is actually alot easier to do under the applications tab in firefox options. Also if the site is using YouTube or another one of the popular video hosting sites to host their content then a site like www.keepvid.com will allow you to download them in flash or mp4 format for viewing.
Lol, oh my gall, sorry for the mistake in pasting above.
How about vlc player, does anyone use this? Will it give me an option to open the flash content?