Make youtube video URLs visible to non-flash users

[emperor]

Title:
Make youtube video URLs visible to non-flash users

Area:
entries

Summary:
It's perfectly possible to download and watch youtube videos without flash. However, the DW video embedder makes this impossible, as there's no mention of the video URL unless you have flash available. A comment in the source would be fine...

Description:
I don't have flash in my browser (because my computer is old, and flash plugins are dreadful), but I watch youtube videos using <a href="http://clive.sourceforge.net/">clive</a> (there are other options out there). I can't watch youtube videos people embed in their DW entries, without asking the poster to tell me the youtube URL.

It would be nice (and, I expect, fairly straightforward to code) if the embedder made the youtube URL available, either as a comment in the HTML code, or maybe via JS if no flash player is detected.

Poll #3835 Make youtube video URLs visible to non-flash users

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52

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Should be implemented as-is.
41 (78.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (13.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (7.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[aithine]

either as a comment in the HTML code, or maybe via JS if no flash player is detected.

If flash is turned off, why not just replace the embedded video with a link to the url? (Probably not by using JS, if possible, as many of us using NoScript to block flash probably have JS off, too, depending on the site.)

[matgb]

Agreed.

Although I use Flashblock, so it wouldn't help me, and I started using flashblock because of the OPs reason but wanted to see some stuff, and now just use it because it makes browsing better.

But while I always try to link as well as embed, others don't, and that can be a problem, especially if I'm using my phone browser, which doesn't have flash, but the phone does have a youtube app.

[jazzfish]

+1

[turlough]

+1

[susanreads]

+1

[kyrielle]

+1

[aedifica]

+1

[feathertail]

This seems like an accessibility issue.

[jadelennox]

it is, it is! I usually browse with flash off because of accessibility reasons, and the inability to get to the URL and open it in inaccessible video player has actually made a lot of difficulties for me.

[feathertail]

(I assume you mean "an accessible video player" there!)

[cesy]

You know what else I'd love? If the embedding tool in the RTE encouraged descriptions or transcripts, by having a field or gap or note to fill them in easily.