14 Accessible HTML5 video player project - subtitle choices

An accessible HTML5 video player should have subtitles - that's a given. But how should those subtitles be displayed? Should they just be white text on a black background?

Well, no.

What if the black background is covering an important occurrence in the video. The person will obviously miss it and not learn everything from the video they may need to. So should the background be transparent? By how much?

Even these few questions point to a need for subtitle settings.

The video player being developed in this project should have subtitle settings that can:

• change background colours
• adjust the transparency of the background
• change the font type
• change font colour
• increase or decrease the font size.

Apart from the settings the subtitles should be movable and sizable. 

What else should subtitles do? Should there be an option of more than one subtitle track, for another language perhaps?

When the settings are open should they be keyboard and screen reader accessible, and should the controls of the video player itself still be accessible?

Lots of questions this week.