New features for users with disabilities

We are pleased to announce we will be working on a project for AssistiveTechnolgy.tv to make MediaCore even more accessible for individuals with disabilities. The features we will be working on will include:

  • Revising categories to make them more accessible and also to provide administrators with the ability to create categories and subcategories. There will be no limit to the number of subcategories a category can have. Both the administrative interface and the front-end interface will see revisions to accommodate these changes.
  • Integrating JW Player with closed captioning and audio descriptions. We will be completely overhauling the add file dialogue in the administrative interface to accommodate these changes.
  • Allowing users to choose which player they would like to use. Options will include: FlowPlayer, JWPlayer, and HTML5

All of these changes will be worked into the main branch for the next major release. Due to the size of these changes it will likely push our previous mid-March release date back a few weeks.