Includes: Kaltura Player (V7)
Date: November 30, 2025
What’s new? 💫
Enhanced accessibility features in the Video Player
We’re rolling out major new accessibility upgrades to deliver a more inclusive, flexible, and high-quality viewing experience:
- New audio menu in the control bar – a dedicated menu now appears directly in the player controls for quick access to audio tracks.
- Unified audio description toggle – standard and extended audio descriptions are now centralized under one menu, making it easier for viewers to enable the experience they need.
- Multi-language extended audio descriptions – extended audio descriptions now support multiple languages for global accessibility.
- Natural voice narration – extended audio descriptions now use high-quality, natural voices for a clearer, more engaging listening experience.
These updates improve accessibility, discoverability, and significantly enhance the experience for viewers who rely on audio descriptions.
For the best playback experience - including the highest-quality voice rendering, we recommend using Chrome, Edge, or Safari.
All updates are supported by new documentation and short video animations now available in the Knowledge Center.
Expanded language support
We’ve expanded accessibility and localization support with a new set of dubbing and standard audio description languages:
Newly supported dubbing languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Newly supported standard audio description languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil).
These additions expand global reach and improve support for multilingual audiences across all SaaS regions.
Reorganized Player Studio for easier feature discovery
The Player Studio has been redesigned to make configuration more straightforward and intuitive:
- Clearer grouping of settings:
- Playback Options
- Accessibility & Language
- Navigation & Discovery
- Engagement & Interactivity
- Controls & Permissions
- Search bar moved to the top for quick access
- Cleaner layout for faster, easier setup
This reorganization shortens setup time, reduces friction, and makes it easier to locate specific features.
Resolved issues
| ID # | Description |
SUP-50567
| Fixed an issue where the Player V7 displayed console errors related to the KAVA plugin when used via the NPM package, even if the plugin was not configured. The player no longer expects the KAVA plugin by default, preventing unnecessary warning messages in the console for implementations that do not include KAVA.
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FEC-14665
| Enhanced the Shaka Player to expose EventStream data, specifically the presentation times of SCTE-35 signals, to applications for better synchronization with ad breaks.
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FEC-14228 SUP-49344 SUP-50612 | Resolved issues with playback and switching between regular audio and audio description tracks. Users will now have the selected audio track playback first and be able to switch between regular and audio description tracks.
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ADA-3048
| The ARIA labels now dynamically update to match the currently playing video when switching videos in a playlist.
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ADA-2863
| Fixed an issue with keyboard WASD navigation. Users can now navigate 360 videos using mouse and keyboard.
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ADA-3067
| Improved management of focus and live region updates to prevent redundant announcements, aligning with WCAG Success Criteria 4.1.3.
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FEC-14765
| Reverted hls.js to version 1.6.12
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. The globe icon 
was removed and now users can enable and disable captions from a dedicated CC button 
located on the player bar.
