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 […]
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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 […]
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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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After taking over Able Player, I received feedback from various sources about the kinds of problems people are having with the accessible media player. While there are miscellaneous observations of bugs and support gaps, the majority of comments were actually about using the player. These aren’t really issues with the JavaScript package itself; they’re about implementation. The Drupal plugin already interfaces with Drupal’s media library. But the WordPress plugin was considerably less powerful – it could only implement Able Player […]
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Yes, I’m aware that it’s still in beta. But as it stands right now, Figma Sites are a clear path to creating an incredible mess of a site. If you look at just a tiny microcosm of the code in the launch demo for Figma Sites, it’s obvious that the code does not even tip a hat in the direction of semantics. Here’s a single link in the “top” navigation of the page (quotes are intentional): What’s in a link? […]
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