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Accessibility

How accessible Vidler is today, what isn’t yet, and how to tell Refari when something gets in your way.

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At a glance

  • Vidler aims for WCAG 2.2 level AA and is partially conformant today.
  • Every video gets captions and a transcript before it’s ready.
  • The player, recorder and camera bubble work by keyboard.
  • Testing with screen readers by people who use them hasn’t happened yet.
  • Send feedback to hello@refari.co. Refari aims to reply within 5 business days.

Commitment

Refari wants everyone to be able to record, watch and share with Vidler, including people who use a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, captions or reduced motion. Vidler is designed and tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

Conformance status

Vidler is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA: most of it conforms, and the parts that don’t yet are listed under known limitations. This is Refari’s own assessment. No independent auditor has reviewed Vidler yet.

  • Website, trust centre and sign-in pages: partially conformant.
  • The web app (library, watch page, editor, settings, admin): partially conformant.
  • The recorder in the browser and the Chrome extension: partially conformant.
  • The video player and embeds: partially conformant.
  • Videos people record: their accessibility depends on the person who records them. Vidler adds captions and a transcript to each one.

What works

  • Every video gets captions and a searchable, timestamped transcript before it’s marked ready. Owners can correct them.
  • Captions can be made larger, given a solid or boxed background, and shown at the top or bottom.
  • The player works fully by keyboard, with a list of shortcuts behind the ? key. Single-key shortcuts can be turned off in settings.
  • The camera bubble moves without dragging: in the web recorder, pick its corner from the setup panel; in the Chrome extension, use the arrow keys, or 1 to 4 to snap it to a corner.
  • The recorder runs from four keyboard shortcuts: Alt (Option on a Mac) and Shift with V, S, K or H.
  • Light and dark themes follow your system, and every screen keeps text contrast at AA in both.
  • Pages reflow to 320 pixels wide and work in either orientation.
  • Animations respect “Reduce motion”.
  • Status messages, such as “Link copied”, are announced to screen readers. The recording timer is never announced.
  • The teleprompter and captions use Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed for readability.

Known limitations

These are the problems known today, the ones affecting the most people first.

  • Vidler hasn’t yet been tested by people using JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver. The screen reader checks so far were automated, so some announcements may be missing or unclear.
  • Videos can’t carry an audio description track. The transcript and the summary are the text alternative.
  • A screen recording with no narration has no text alternative unless its owner writes a description.
  • In the editor, trimming by dragging the timeline handles hasn’t yet been checked for a keyboard or single-click alternative.
  • Captions are written automatically and can contain mistakes until the owner corrects them.
  • Captions can be placed at the top or bottom of the video, but not dragged anywhere else.
  • Recording a screen needs a desktop browser. On phones, Vidler records the camera and voice only.
  • The Chrome extension’s window follows your system’s light or dark setting, not the one chosen in Vidler.
  • On the home page, a sample recording timer and status dot animate while that part of the page is on screen, with no pause button. Turning on “Reduce motion” stops them.
  • Vidler’s screens are in English only. Captions and transcripts can be in other languages.

Compatibility

  • Vidler works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on desktop, and Safari and Chrome on phones.
  • The Chrome extension needs Chrome 116 or later.
  • Vidler relies on HTML, WAI-ARIA, CSS and JavaScript.

How this was assessed

Refari assessed Vidler itself on :

  • Automated checks with axe-core 4.11 against WCAG 2.2 A and AA, on the main pages in light and dark themes, on desktop and phone widths.
  • A manual keyboard pass: tab order, visible focus, dialogs, menus and the player.
  • A review of each page’s accessibility tree: landmarks, headings, names and live regions.
  • Reflow at 320 pixels (the same as 400 percent zoom), landscape at 640 by 320, and WCAG text spacing.

An accessibility conformance report (VPAT 2.5, WCAG edition) is being prepared from this assessment.

Feedback

If something in Vidler is hard to use, or you need content in another format, email hello@refari.co with “Accessibility” in the subject. Say which page or feature it was, what you were trying to do, and the browser and assistive technology you use.

Refari aims to reply within 5 business days.

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