Audio player controls not announced to Orca screenreader

[André Jaenisch]

As reported on the Orca Mailing List: ​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00113.html

there is at least one instance with an inaccessible video player control:
​http://vidstorm.tk/u/storm_dragon/m/the-insane-song/

Looking into the Markup it looks like audio.js is the problematic bit:
​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mediagoblin.git/tree/mediagoblin/static/js/audio.js

The user reported it in ​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00120.html as

"There are no controls, no play, stop, pause, anything other than the slider, which itself is unlabeled."

A good entry point was suggested in ​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00121.html

What led to the decision of using/writing this audio.js?
Where there alternatives to be considered?

[André Jaenisch]

As reported on the Orca Mailing List: ​​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00113.html

there is at least one instance with an inaccessible audio player control:
​​http://vidstorm.tk/u/storm_dragon/m/the-insane-song/

Looking into the Markup it looks like audio.js is the problematic bit:
​​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mediagoblin.git/tree/mediagoblin/static/js/audio.js

The user reported it in ​​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00120.html as

"There are no controls, no play, stop, pause, anything other than the slider, which itself is unlabeled."

A good entry point was suggested in ​​https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2016-October/msg00121.html

What led to the decision of using/writing this audio.js?
Where there alternatives to be considered?

[André Jaenisch]

Thanks, ayleph, for pointing out, that this issue described here is with the audio player.

[Ben Sturmfels]

Thanks Ryuno-Ki, this is very valuable feedback, as accessibility is a high priority for MediaGoblin.

I'll note that this ticket is closely related to #5483 about the JAWS screen reader, opened a couple of days ago by lilmike (one of the administrators of the vidstorm.tk MediaGoblin instance you mentioned).