PLAYER Accessibility & Features

Playlists and Channels

Embedded single player with integrated playlists
Line-up and publish entire playlists and play multiple videos in succession within the same video player. The most commonly used Media RSS (MRSS) playlist format is supported. Metadata for each individual video is displayed along with the preview thumbnail. Related videos or "more like this" features enable you to make video recommendations to your viewers. 

Embedded playlists and WebTV Channel templates (HTML5 Applets)
Individual playlists or a number playlists can be grouped to create Multimedia WebTV Channels. Launching the player applet is a simple "copy and paste" of the embedded code. Scheduled auto-publishing of each video or the entire playlist using a scheduler to define “on-air” times creates a TV style programme schedule for continuous playback.

Player Tools

Interactive viewing and participation tools
GiGaSoft multi-format media player displays the 'embed, share and reporting' shortcuts on the player control to facilitate viral content sharing. The player is also whitelisted on most social sites for in-stream playback of the shared links via email or posting to Facebook, Twitter, Viadeo, LinkedIn, and Google+. Interactive viewing experience is achieved also through conditional in-video ‘call to action’ forms and button components at ‘pause’, ‘replay’, ‘mid-roll’ or ‘post-roll’.

Comments, feedback, favourites playlists and e-mail alerts
Viewers can communicate directly with publishers through posting reports, comments and  feedback or to privately ask questions, request interviews, meetings or product demos. Viewers can create favourite playlists for easy access and also subscribe to receive instant, daily or weekly e-mail alerts on newly published live and on-demand videos and webcasts.

Video properties, sponsored texts, images and banners
Video properties include the presenting company name, presenter profile, video title and description and sponsored or promotional texts, images or banners below the player, which are click-able through to a related website.  The player applet footer can be branded with hyperlinked images or logos to promote sponsors or particular a product.

Web-links and video related documents
Each video can have related web-links, related video transcripts, factsheets, press releases, presentations or research documents to complement the video messages.

Playlists and content navigation pagers and search engine
The player features a powerful search engine as well as the customised searches and filters saved to the viewers' profile.

Live & on-demand videos and webcasts in a self-contained applet
Playlists can contain a combination of live and on-demand audio, videos, webcasts, images and documents. Presentation slides and images can be synchronised with video timelines to easily create live and on-demand webcasts. Viewers can download, print or share specific slides, which link back to the exact video timeline.

Channel RSS feeds
Quick and easy access to your content is enhanced with our integrated RSS feeds. The embedded player applets generate custom RSS feeds URL with all videos in the playlist for viewers to receive automated alerts in real-time. Whenever you create playlists for the embedded channels, our system gives you the option simply to tick a box to place an RSS icon on the channel applet footer. Each video link within the playlist will be published to the RSS feed from where viewers can subscribe to receive timely updates and alerts.

Closed Captions (CC) or Subtitles

Closed Captions (CC), language subtitles and scene tags
Video scene tags, Closed Captions (CC) or multiple subtitle tracks in WebVTT (plain text HTML5 standard), SRT (plain text) or DFXP (XML) formats can be added to all your videos or audio recordings to:

i) provide accessibility by enabling your viewers to select their language translations 

ii) aid of hearing

iii) provide continuous video play in noisy environments

iv) drive SEO

GiGaSoft multi-format media player supports all captions formats across all browsers. When the player encounters Closed Captions script, it automatically places a CC button in the player control bar, which viewer can switch on/off. We currently support seven languages in English, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese or Arabic. 

Accessibility Standards

GiGaSoft multi-format media player seeks to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.x standards and the WAI-ARIA guidelines to improve the accessibility and interoperability of our web content and applications.

Basics 

i) the keyboard should be fully accessible

ii) supported screen readers should be usable at all times

iii) the media player can be customised to modify visibility

iv) Closed Captions to provide text for audible information to aid hearing

Accessibility

GiGaSoft multi-format media player enables viewers to have an accessible video viewing experience without the use of a mouse. With just a few keystrokes, you can tab to a video player and use the provided shortcuts to navigate the player. The keyboard navigation is compatible with screen readers.

Shortcuts

In addition to accessibility support, GiGaSoft multi-format media player includes video-specific keyboard shortcuts, enabling viewers to have an effortless video viewing experience without the use of a mouse. The keyboard shortcuts are active when you tab into the player or after you have clicked into it. To disable the shortcuts, just tab or click outside of the player.

Screen reader

GiGaSoft multi-format media player supports the most-used screen readers for accessibility. The player is tested on browser and operating system combinations known to be widely used by accessibility viewers. For example, some browsers, such as Edge, are known within the community to offer only experimental screen reader support. We recommend viewers to watch video with the following combinations: