Accessibility is very important. Player controls in video players are normally buttons. They are not seen by screen readers which makes the player not accessible for blind and vision impaired people.
This tutorial will guide you how to add extra text controls that can be read by screen readers. The text controls include play video, pause video, fast forward, rewind, mute/unmute and go fullscreen.
The tutorial will also show you how to add accesskey attribute to the text controls so the command can be activated with shortcut keys.
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