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Hi
I am developing a website designed to be highly accessible to people with disabilities, and I am having difficulty shifting focus to a video so it can be played using only the keyboard (no mouse).
As I tab down the page, the focus skips over the video to land on the AutoScroll control of the transcript section, and it isn’t possible to set the focus to the video itself so I can activate playing it.
If I am logged in as an Admin, the focus will go to the ‘Admin Ok’ text on the video, but even then, I cannot work out how to play it—again, emphasising that this is keyboard only, no mouse involved.
Can anyone help?
For admin – website is at https://mediaforeveryone.com
Thanks
Michael
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Sorry that should read ‘Video OK’ not ‘Admin Ok’.
Hello Michael,
Thank you for your feature request.
We are checking if we could enable the tab key for the main player element only and let the users use space bar and arrow keys to control the player or if we let it go through each player control element.
The first approach is better if you have multiple players on one page as it’s faster to skip through each one of them. On the other hand perhaps the tab key could only work for the individual controls once the video is playling.
Thanks,
MartinThank you for your response.
I think the first approach is better, as the visitor can use the keyboard shortcuts to control the video once focus is achieved,
Also, it would be better if they just want to tab down the page and skip over the videos to get read text after it rather than having to tab through each video player control element (which would be tedious).
Certainly, in my case, I have multiple videos, either single videos or in a playlist on a page, so again, the first approach would be better – achieving focus on each video’s main element.
Thank you for your consideration.
Michael
