Player accessibility

Kaltura Player V7 is designed for accessibility. It fully supports keyboard navigation, designed to work with common screen readers and was tested to work on modern web browsers and assistive technology, including the JAWS ® from Freedom Scientific, NVDA screen reader from NV Access (on Windows), and VoiceOver from Apple (on Mac). 

The Kaltura player VPAT report covers the degree of conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 and can be downloaded from here

To navigate and operate kaltura player using your keyboard use the following keys: 

General navigation and actions

  • Tab - navigate forward
  • Shift + Tab - navigate backward
  • Enter - activate the link
  • Enter or Spacebar - activate the button
  • Spacebar - check/uncheck a checkbox
  • Esc - close dialogs and exit full screen view

Radio Buttons

  • Spacebar - select the focused option (if not selected)
  • ↑/↓ or ←/→ - navigate between options
  • Tab - leave the group of radio buttons

Select (dropdown) menu

  • ↑/↓ - navigate between options
  • Spacebar - expand
  • Enter/Esc - select option and collapse

Slider

  • ↑/↓ or ←/→ - increase or decrease slider value
  • Home/End - beginning or end of video and/or transcript
  • PageUp/PageDown can move by larger increments

Tab panel

  • Tab - once to navigate into the group of tabs and once to navigate out of the group of tabs
  • ↑/↓ or ←/→ - choose and activate previous/next tab.

Scroll

  • ↑/↓ - scroll vertically
  • ←/→ - scroll horizontally
  • Spacebar/Shift + Spacebar - scroll by page


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