Tuesday, August 11Digital Marketing Journals

Tag: Player

Issue with player causing videos to not play in certain cases – Incident details – Wistia
Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

Issue with player causing videos to not play in certain cases – Incident details – Wistia

There was an issue that caused embeds with the big player button to not play from 9:29AM-10:24AM when an user clicked directly on the big player button to start video playback. Clicking anywhere outside the big player button would still allow playback to work as expected. We identified the issue, reverted the change, and verified that the bug was no longer present as of 10:24AM.
Wistia Status – New Accessible Player enabled
Social Marketing Strategies, social media, social media marketing

Wistia Status – New Accessible Player enabled

Today we have enabled the New Accessible Player for all accounts.Prior to today, these updates had to be enabled via Account Beta flags in your Account Settings. Now, it’s automatically available to everyone!Here’s a rundown of the updates which you can read more about here.Updating our player’s appearanceFirst, we increased the opacity of the control buttons and eliminated the transparency of the progress bar. These changes might seem subtle, but they will make a big difference in the experience for those with limited or low vision. Plus, our new default player is designed to work well with screen readers and other assistive tools right out of the gate.Making accessibility part of your brandAnother change we made was increasing the player’s color contrast. Doing so makes the controls easi...