Title: A study on media players from an accessibility perspective

Authors: Muralidhar Pantula

Addresses: Computer Science and Technology, Mandanapalle institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle, India

Abstract: Despite the growth of media content on the web, the necessity of a user-agent that renders media content is becoming prominent. Considering the needs of persons with disability, WAI recommended guidelines on how web content is to be specified. Along with user-agents playing a major role in making inaccessible content accessible, the user-agents must ensure the web content must be accessible to all users by providing the requirements through its interface and by communicating with other assistive technologies. In this paper, we have seen the problems for the persons with disabilities. We have studied the media players which are recently developed and in what way they followed the guidelines to make the content accessible to users. We designed an estimated metric based on the requirements identified from the guidelines issued in WAI. Using these metrics, we have calculated the accessibility score of each player and concluded that the most improvement is in video player designs.

Keywords: media players; video; persons with disabilities; usability; user agents.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2023.131920

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, 2023 Vol.18 No.4, pp.263 - 289

Received: 21 Jan 2020
Accepted: 20 Jul 2020
Published online: 05 Jul 2023 *

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