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Able Player v4.7.0

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@joedolson joedolson released this 28 Sep 16:44
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v4.7.0
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Styling

  • New default theme with modernized layout and variables for colors.
    • This summarizes a large number of individually small changes to the layout and styling of Able Player elements.
  • Removed somes instances of positioning imposed from JS so positioning is more controllable from CSS.
  • Significant improvements to responsive design and behaviors.
  • Removed fixed width and height set on big play button.
  • Make big play button partially transparent.

Features

  • Add support for synchronized sign language sourced from YouTube
  • Allow modal dialogs to be closed by clicking on the modal overlay.
  • Support toggling the transcript area when using a pre-defined transcript area.
  • Allow non-standard support for single character hours value in VTT timestamp formats.

Bug fixes

  • Fix window resizing issue in sign language windows.
  • Reset scroll position after closing fullscreen to prevent unexpected shift of position.
  • Remove deprecated modestbranding parameter from YouTube player params.
  • Add origin property to YouTube player params.
  • Reduce fullscreen timeout from 1000ms to 100ms. Ensures the resize method executes when leaving fullscreen quickly.
  • Track active media so focus is sent to correct player after refreshing controls.
  • Change modal dialog positioning to fixed to prevent unexpected shifts of position.
  • Properly disable transcript with data-include-transcript="false"
  • Cookie referred to wrong variable when setting sign language data.
  • Prevent scrolling of background content when modals are active.
  • Allow the audio description text panel to show when there is both a VTT and a described video.
  • Handle data-skin set to invalid value.
  • Prevent floating windows from being positioned above the top of the viewport.
  • Ensure last block of captions in transcript are wrapped in .able-transcript-block.
  • Use outerHeight in several places where height was used so calculations account for whole element height.
  • Fix unwanted lines generated in lyrics mode.
  • Verify the target transcript div exists before setting the external div flag.
  • Support the default value for the kind attribute on source when omitted.
  • Method to closePopups ran on every click, rather than only when popups were opened.
  • Classname replacement in processing VTT tags replaced spaces with . instead of the reverse. Props @jeanem.

Accessibility

  • Ensure all Able Player controls meet WCAG SC 2.5.8 by being a minimum of 24px by 24px.
  • Make visible alerts dismissible
  • Extend default period of visibility for expiring alerts to 20 seconds.
  • Improve accessibility of draggable containers when using a screen reader. More predictable keyboard handling & audible feedback.

Internationalization

  • Change all translation files from JS containing a JSON object to .json. Fallback to .js files if JSON sources not found.
  • Add ms and pl to list of supported languages.
  • Add several new strings to translation files. (Translations needed.)

Build tools & Code clean up

  • Change ableplayer.dist.js build to remove comments, reducing the dist file size by about 150Kb.
  • Simplify if/else statements. Use ternary or swithc where appropriate or collapse arguments.
  • Reformat if/else statements to remove line breaks before else.
  • Remove $ableColumnLeft - unused and unidentified variable.
  • Remove unneeded -moz and -mix prefixed fullscreen properties.
  • Only create a single alertBox container and move in DOM as needed instead of managing three separate containers.
  • Add new prototype to set the text for buttons.
  • Add new prototype to set icons for buttons.
  • Make use of existing ucfirst prototype.
  • Remove number.isInteger polyfill (already unused).
  • Remove tests for svg support.
  • Remove remaining IE compatibility supports.
  • Replace e.which with e.key.
  • Remove obsolete Safari keycodes.
  • Add prototype for syncing sign language video.
  • Remove unused prototype AblePlayer.prototype.isCloseToCorner.
  • Remove unused mediaType argument from AccessibleSlider prototype.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v4.6.0...v4.7.0

Contributors

joedolson, jeanem, and 2 other contributors
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