How to use YouTube with a screen reader ?
YouTube search and search results
How to search YouTube videos
1. Go to YouTube .
2. Press the / key to go to
the search box that appears at the top of the page.
3. Enter a search term and press Enter .
Search results
The search results page has a
section that suggests corrections for misspelled words. Each of the search
results presents the following information:
• The title of the video (if selected, the video will play)
• The name of the channel that posted the video
• How long ago the video was uploaded and how many views it has
• A snippet of the video description
YouTube Player
If you click on a video, you
will be taken to the YouTube video player. These are the sections that you will
see in it:
Section headers
Heading 1 for a video title
On the player
• Search slider : The search slider is used to fast forward or
rewind the video. To use it, you must deactivate the virtual cursor and then
press the tab key to select it. Use the left and right or up and down arrow
keys to fast forward or rewind the video.
• Play / Pause : The button text changes according to the video
status. To replay it, select the Play button or press K after the video stops
playing.
• Next : This button allows you to go to the next video. If you
do not have multimedia buttons, you can move on to the next video with Shift +
N .
• Mute / unmute : This button changes depending on the state of
the video (sound on or muted).
• Volume slider : Use the arrow keys left and right or up and
down to increase and decrease the volume.
• Elapsed time / total duration : This section shows the total
elapsed time compared to the total duration of the video. Shows how much of the
video has been played so far and how much is left to play.
• Subtitles : If a video has subtitles, you can press the C key
to activate them. They will be displayed at the bottom of the video. To disable
them, use the C key again .
Setting
The Configuration button
allows access to a menu in which you can make the following changes:
• Autoplay : Enable or disable autoplay.
• Annotations : Activate or deactivate annotations.
• Speed : Select the speed of the video, which can be normal,
accelerated or decelerated.
• Subtitles : Activate or deactivate subtitles. Here you can
also choose the subtitle language or select automatic translation.
• Quality : Select the pixel quality of the video you are
currently watching. The available resolutions depend on how the video was
uploaded and the speed of the Internet connection. We recommend leaving the
Automatic option so that the quality of the videos adapts to the speed of the
connection.
Theater mode
Select Theater Mode to expand the player. Select it again to
return to its original size.
Full screen
If you select full screen
mode , the player will be maximized to
the screen size and all content outside of it will be removed. Select Escape to
exit full screen mode.
Full screen mode is also used
to get rid of extra elements that appear around the player on the HTML page.
Only the player will be displayed.
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