Since the blog article was published, we got some feedback and reactions from the web community as well as the Barack Obama camp. They fixed the video caption page. Well… issues of accessibility remain:
- Why “ghettoize” or create a “digital divide” on the video page, and why can’t the videos be captioned (or have an option to turn on captioning) already? This is synonymous to a “text-only” page.
- Why Lightbox? It is NOT accessible!
- Also, when the script is turned off, so is the capability to access the videos.
- And, when the style is disabled, the links to the video player disappear.