WP Accessibility 2.2.0 includes one major new feature and one substantial change. New Feature: Video Pausing The major new feature is an option that will inject a play/pause button on autoplaying videos that don’t have controls and that will automatically pause those videos if the prefers-reduced-motion flag is detected. There are many cases this could cover, but one of the most significant is usage of the WordPress “cover” block with a featured video. This embeds the video without controls, which […]
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Able Player: version 4.7.0 beta 1 looking for testing!
Able Player version 4.7.0 beta 1 is now ready for testing – and your feedback is welcome! There are quite a few bug fixes in this release, a fair amount of code polish, and a new base design. New Base Design The base design is not visually significantly different; the goal wasn’t to make radical changes in appearance. However, it incorporates a lot of changes with specific goals in mind: Feature Updates There are a couple of major new features. […]
Continue reading “Able Player: version 4.7.0 beta 1 looking for testing!” »The Accessibility Show #7: Looking deeper after automated testing
The seventh episode of The Accessibility Show is now out! This one was an interesting change of pace. I was asked to take a look at the site for another of Nathan’s podcasts: The No Script Show, the brain child of David Waumsley. The premise for the No Script Show is fundamentally interesting to me. The show is about stripping away the baggage of page and site builders and working on the fundamentals of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS […]
Continue reading “The Accessibility Show #7: Looking deeper after automated testing” »Why use Able Player instead of `video`?
I was asked a completely reasonable question today: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels? The framing of this is basically “what does the native video element do wrong”, and that’s not really the point. It’s a hard job to nail down exactly what native video does wrong, and that’s part of why you’d use a 3rd party player in general. The native video element is, in a word, inconsistent. Browsers have different user […]
Continue reading “Why use Able Player instead of `video`?” »Able Player version 4.6.0
I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn’t a particularly ambitious release of Able Player, but it does resolve a lot of long-standing bugs, modernizes some of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and cleans up a variety of issues in the package. I’ll be continuing with the practice of keeping the Able Player documentation in place on Github, so you can read the complete changelog […]
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