HTML 5 Accessibility

Microsoft IE 11 improves HTML5 Accessible Video Features

Microsoft has been committed to accessibility, and IE 11 offers improved HTML5 accessible video features.

HTML5 offers a rich video experience. It allows publishers to upload videos onto a website without the need for a plug-in, such as Flash. With all of the great features available, you may be looking at using WebM and MP4 for all of your future videos. If that is the case, you will want to know about Internet Explorer 11’s features and capabilities.

IE 11 has made significant improvements over IE10 and plays videos without the need for plug ins or HTML5 video players.

IE 11 Accessible Video Features

ie 11 and HTML 5 Accessibility If a viewer uses IE11 for playing your video, they will be able to view captions, subtitles and chapters. It has a subtitle menu as well so the viewer can customize appearance.

IE also allows the user to adjust the playback speed to make it easier to read the captions, understand the context of the video or increase comprehension. It has more keyboard shortcut options and buttons accessible by the tab key.

Browser Drawbacks

There are some drawbacks to IE 11 when it comes to HTML5 videos. It has issues with captions that are in a VTT file. However it does support VTT, metadata headers.

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It does fully support Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) without issue. It also doesn’t support descriptions, but that seems to be an issue with all the other browsers as well.

All browsers seem to have issues with screen readers. The controls disappear after the video playback begins so the person can’t stop the video.

All browsers need to make continued improvements regarding video features for HTML5 accessible video. It is clear the amount of effort Microsoft has made here.  Microsoft IE 11 offer user the best HTML5 accessible video features to date and the accessibility applauds the improvements.

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Nicole E. Flynn, CMO at cielo24, is deeply interested in exploring and communicating the ways in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) intersects with various aspects of our daily lives. She is passionate about exploring the ways in which AI can be ethically harnessed to improve the quality of life and make our world a better place. Nicole seeks to educate and inform audiences about the potential of AI technology and how it can be used to drive innovation and growth.

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