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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Able Player: Receiving the Torch
For anybody who’s been putting video on the web for a long time and cares about accessibility, Able Player has been the feature leader for accessible multimedia. Created by Terrill Thompson, Able Player has been under steady development and research for well over a decade. Originally conceived of in 2010, Terrill put 4 years of research into the accessibility of video and audio players before the first release on April 11th, 2014. Now 11 years old, Able Player’s incredible feature […]
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