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Kath: [voiceover] Easy YouTube testing by a screen reader user
Kirin: So here are the items I enter into that. Do I?
Kath: OK
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly]
Kirin: Ah right
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly]
Kirin: Ooh its telling me the play controls, how cool is that.
[laughs]
Kath: Go on, do you want to have an explore
There is a play
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly]
Kirin: Now the only worry is would that happen
if I did list links would it still come up?
Cos it's saying bullet.
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly]
Kirin: Ok, it's got all the buttons.
[Jaws screen ready talking rapidly]
Oh great it's telling me where the box is.
How cool is that. So that's! it, underneath that is where
I would go into that, underneath there in the edit is that it.
Kath: If we do the same thing again and look for the video
[Jaws screen readers talking rapidly]
Kirin: This is quite exciting because I understand this concept.
Kath: [voice over] It takes the user
a few attempts to find the search results
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly
Kirin: Ahhh you have to press a 'go' button on this.
[Jaws reader talking rapidly for a longer period of time]
Kirin: Now it should play it.
There we are
There we go. We'll just keep it quiet.
Kath: Great
actually seemed to be enjoying that.
Kirin: [laughs] yes it was really nice, it was really easy it was very simple
I like...
The thing is power, the web is supposed to give you power
and often the web doesn't give you power because what it does
is you lose the power because of the complexities of
of how to get around but this has given me the power
that it should give me in the beginning.
Which is I can stop it
[Kirin demonstrates stopping the video]
[Jaws screen reader talking rapidly]
Kath: [voice over]: Easy YouTube can be accessed on
http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/
Easy YouTube was created by Christian Heilman.
This video was made by AbilityNet with thanks to Kirin Saeed
and City University.