HTML5 Audio Description (via screenreader)

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HTML5 Audio Description (via screenreader)

1,000 users

2012-08-10

Google Accessibility

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Description

This extension plays audio description track elements of HTML5 videos via a screenreader.

IMPORTANT: Please activate the “Enable element” experiment in chrome://flags/
This experiment MUST be enabled for the extension to work.

Use this extension if you want your screenreader to render audio descriptions. For the extension that plays via Chrome text to speech, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/a/google.com/detail/jafenodgdcelmajjnbcchlfjomlkaifp

Currently supported screenreaders:
- ChromeVox
- Mac OS X VoiceOver is not fully supported

Languages supported:
- depends on language support of your screenreader

Keyboard shorcuts:
For keyboard shortcuts, press alt + ? while on a webpage.

This is part of the Axs-Chrome open-source project http://code.google.com/p/google-axs-chrome/, which supports extensions that enhance accessibility. You can submit feedback to the Axs-Chrome discussion group: https://groups.google.com/group/axs-chrome-discuss?pli=1

Reviews

Bryan Myers
Bryan Myers

As a sighted web developer I couldn't get this to do anything when it was enabled. If I were blind it would be impossible to activate... even if that did anything.

Bradley Johnson
Bradley Johnson

no instructions!

Daubney Thielking
Daubney Thielking

There's no instructions. I can't figure out how to work it.

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