Media Element Results - RAT

How it’s announced by Narrator:

• audio, group
  • play button (space)
  • time elapsed / skip back, button, shift + left arrow skips back 30 seconds
  • seek, 0%, slider, left and right arrow keys skip 10 seconds; shift + left or right arrow keys skip 30 seconds
  • time remaining / skip ahead, button, shift + right arrow skips ahead 30 seconds
  • mute, button (M)
  • volume, 100%, slider, up and down arrow keys raise or lower volume

Narrator announces space and M because they are keyboard controls to play or pause the audio, and to mute or unmute the audio.

Narrator announces the slash in phrases like time elapsed / skip back.

How it’s announced by JAWS:

• audio
  • play button, to activate press space bar
  • time elapsed / skip back button, to activate press space bar, shift + left arrow skips back 30 seconds (period)
  • seek left right slider, 0%, to increase or decrease use the arrow keys, left and right arrow keys skip 10 seconds (semicolon) shift + left or right arrow keys skip
  • time remaining / skip ahead button, to activate press space bar, shift + right arrow skips ahead 30 seconds (period)
  • mute button, to activate press space bar (M)
  • volume left right slider, 95%, to increase or decrease use the arrow keys, up and down arrow keys raise or lower volume

JAWS curiously announces period and semicolon, yet they are not keyboard controls. JAWS announces M because it is a keyboard control to mute or unmute the audio.

How it’s announced by VoiceOver:

• audio, toolbar

  in audio toolbar, 6 items

  • play, selected, button, begin playback
  • 0:00
  • / 7:29
  • 0, slider, audio time scrubber
  • mute, selected, button, mute audio track
  • download media, selected, button, media control

VoiceOver announces the current and remaining time as zero, zero zero and slash, seven, twenty-nine.

VoiceOver navigation cannot access volume controls. However, volume controls may be tabbed into, and then they are announced as 1, audio control, where 1 is the audio volume on a scale of 0 to 1.

A <video> without controls is not announced by Narrator or JAWS. This is probably expected per HTML: Embedded content: User interface.

How it’s announced in VoiceOver:

• video, toolbar
• video, toolbar

VoiceOver curiously announces <video src=""> as two toolbars with no content inside of them.

How it’s announced in Narrator:

• video, group
  • play button (space)
  • time elapsed / skip back, button, shift + left arrow skips back 30 seconds
  • seek, 0%, slider, left and right arrow keys skip 10 seconds; shift + left or right arrow keys skip 30 seconds
  • time remaining / skip ahead, button, shift + right arrow skips ahead 30 seconds
  • mute, button (M)
  • volume, 100%, slider, up and down arrow keys raise or lower volume
  • full screen, button, alt + enter

Narrator announces space and M because they are keyboard controls to play or pause the video, and to mute or unmute the audio.

Narrator announces the slash in phrases like time elapsed / skip back.

How it’s announced in JAWS:

• video
  • play button, to activate press space bar
  • time elapsed / skip back button, to activate press space bar, shift + left arrow skips back 30 seconds (period)
  • seek left right slider, 0%, to increase or decrease use the arrow keys, left and right arrow keys skip 10 seconds; shift + left or right arrow keys skip
  • time remaining / skip ahead button, to activate press space bar, shift + right arrow skips ahead 30 seconds (period)
  • mute button, to activate press space bar (M)
  • volume left right slider, 100%, to increase or decrease use the arrow keys, up and down arrow keys raise or lower volume
  • full screen button, to activate press space bar, alt + enter

JAWS curiously announces period and semicolon, yet they are not keyboard controls. JAWS announces M because it is a keyboard control to mute or unmute the audio.

How it’s announced in VoiceOver:

• video, toolbar
• video, toolbar

  in video toolbar, 6 items

  • play, selected, button, begin playback
  • 0:00
  • / 7:29
  • 0, slider, movie time scrubber
  • enter full screen, selected, button, play movie in full screen mode
  • mute, selected, button, mute audio track
  • download media, selected, button, media control

VoiceOver curious announces the video canvas as a toolbar with no content inside of it.

VoiceOver announces the current and remaining time as zero, zero zero and slash, seven, twenty-nine.

VoiceOver navigation cannot access volume controls. However, volume controls may be tabbed into, and then they are announced as 1, audio control, where 1 is the audio volume on a scale of 0 to 1.

VoiceOver loses access to controls after they visually disappear upon entering fullscreen.