[vicsireland] Re: RTE Player
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:09:35 +0100
I found that, when I activated the flash player on a button (such as 2 or 5,
whatever) with the spacebar, spacebar pressed again toggled it off. You can
either left-click once or, as i did there, press spacebar, to activate (or
deactivate) Flash. Now the other thing is that Flash content can, at least
hypothetically, be written so that it is accessible; but that choice rests
in the hands of the authors. There may also be an unacknowledged lag
between contemporary screen-readers and Flash software - and that is just my
opinion or comment based on some of my own and others' reported experiences
on sites with flash content that was said to be accessible to
screen-readers. .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ciaran Ferry" <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:22 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: RTE Player
Mark and all,
My experience of the player was much similar to Tim and Flors - not a very
good one.
After launching the application, I came across a series of buttons labelled
"unlabeled0", "unlabeled 2", "unlabeled 5" ... etc. Then I noticed what
appeared to be the name of a programme e.g. prime time, desperate
housewives, Corrigan city farm etc which seemed to change every 10 seconds
or so. Using auto forms mode with Jaws it tended to get a bit stuck while
scrolling, probably due to the description of the programme being refreshed
(the search edit field is located between the programme name and it's
description).
Moving down the screen I came across text which I presumed indicated the
days of the week - "mo", "tu", "we" etc. There didn't appear to be any
listings associated with any of these days, something that I would've
expected.
After clicking the "watch now" button, the screen appeared to refresh
however the video didn't play. By examining the screen It became apparent
that I was now in a page which was giving me more info on the chosen
programme, together with quite a number of additional buttons. Starting
the stream was a bit of a lottery, and once started stopping it was just as
difficult. When I thought I had found the play / pause button, I soon
noticed that my excitement was premature - I was in fact hitting the "mute"
button, of which I found two! I was unable to find the "stop button" at all.
Note - when viewing various programmes, there was a graphic which appeared
on the programme page which read "More from Corrigans City Farm". I would
have expected this to change based on the selected programme?
Trying the search facility, I attempted to locate an episode of the Sunday
game. Entering the search string and hitting the button seemed to have the
desired effect - my system made a clicking sound and the page refreshe.
Scrolling down Jaws read that 9 results were found, but that's were my
luck ran out. The days of the week appeared to be listed, followed by a list
box. Entering the list box Jaws told me that I was on item 31 of 28,
and then the page appeared to refresh. The new page listed the days of the
week but very little else, the list box had vanished.
Basically - I didn't like the player at all, and found it extremely
difficult to use. In fact if I was asked to find for example East Enders
from last Tues Apr 14th, I don't think I'd be able to do it successfully.
It gets a -1 on accessibility from me.
Ciaran
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