Tagged with: Accessibility
Posts (12)
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New look subtitles and playback for BBC iPlayer on TV
Andrew White
Product Manager, BBC iPlayer
We’re rolling out a new look for playback on connected TV - clean, sleek and pared-back, with new, improved, customisable subtitles.
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An accessible digital BBC – 2019 in review
Emma Pratt Richens
Senior Accessibility Specialist, BBC Design & Engineering
Emma Pratt Richens reviews the advances in accessibility that have been made across BBC Online in 2019.
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Mixing Audio Description for BBC iPlayer
Marcel Riederer
Software Engineer
How more Audio Described content has been made available to stream.
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Creating an accessible media player in Flash
Daniel Oades
Senior Software Engineer
The nature of Flash has always presented a challenge for users of assistive technologies. There are a number of technological and design considerations that must be taken into account when building accessible Flash content.
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Standard Media Player: accessibility
Henny Swan
Senior Accessibility Specialist
The SMP also acts as a platform on which new features, in the form of plugins, can be added to help users search, discover and save their favourite content as well as customise their audio video experience.
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Accessibility on BBC iPlayer on Chromecast
Henny Swan
Senior Accessibility Specialist
For blind and low vision users, as well as some users with cognitive impairments, both the BBC iPlayer iOS and Android apps have labels on all the Chromecast buttons that can be read out.
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Making the new iPlayer accessible for all
Henny Swan
Senior Accessibility Specialist
Before we began work we already had a lot of data and user feedback about likes and dislikes with the existing iPlayer website. This was fed into the design process helping to shape wireframes and UX along with the BBC requirements of standards and guidelines.
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Introducing the new BBC iPlayer
Dan Taylor-Watt
Director, Product & Systems, BBC Design & Engineering
The new iPlayer has been designed for a multiscreen world, so the experience is consistent, but optimised across PC, tablet, mobile and TV devices and we've built it in such a way that we can rapidly develop and release new features across those four screens.
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New BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
Henny Swan
Senior Accessibility Specialist
In June last year we published a draft of the BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines. Since then we've been listening to feedback, reviewing the standards and guidelines, and refining techniques so that today the standards can finally come out of draft.
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Future Media Standards and Guidelines Website Refresh
Jonathan Murphy
Technology & Creativity Blog editor
Today Standards and Guidelines has changed. We’ve removed a dozen guidelines that were out-of-date, cross-linked much of the design information to its sister site www.bbc.co.uk/gel, changed the colour and font of the site to bring it more in line with GEL and removed some broken links.
