video on BBC website not working with Firefox [UK Mac]

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From: d4g4h4 on 21 Jun 2008 10:56

I have the latest version of flash installed, but the BBC's new video
format only works with Safari. I get a "this content isn't available at
the moment" when using Firefox. (No problems with iplayer though.)

Does anyone have it working with Firefox? (I'm on 10.4.11 intel)

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From: d4g4h4 on 21 Jun 2008 10:59

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have the latest version of flash installed, but the BBC's new video
> format only works with Safari. I get a "this content isn't available at
> the moment" when using Firefox. (No problems with iplayer though.)
>
> Does anyone have it working with Firefox? (I'm on 10.4.11 intel)

Ah, it works on my partner's macbook, which is almost identical to
mine... looks like there might be some other problem...

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(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

From: Phillip Walters on 21 Jun 2008 11:00

From: James Jolley on 21 Jun 2008 11:09

On 2008-06-21 15:59:52 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) said:

> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have the latest version of flash installed, but the BBC's new video
>> format only works with Safari. I get a "this content isn't available at
>> the moment" when using Firefox. (No problems with iplayer though.)
>>
>> Does anyone have it working with Firefox? (I'm on 10.4.11 intel)
>
> Ah, it works on my partner's macbook, which is almost identical to
> mine... looks like there might be some other problem...

That's interesting. Keep us updated on what the issue is. Speaking as a
blind user, many sites that use a flash implementation don't work with
VoiceOver at all, including the BBC's IPlayer. What happens is that
VoiceOver doesn't even see the "play" button at all so this locks blind
users out entirely. Shame really. I wonder how easy it might be to do a
dashboard app similar to "Listen again"?

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Best

-James-

From: d4g4h4 on 21 Jun 2008 11:17

James Jolley <james.jolley(a)homecall.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2008-06-21 15:59:52 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) said:
>
> > David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> I have the latest version of flash installed, but the BBC's new video
> >> format only works with Safari. I get a "this content isn't available at
> >> the moment" when using Firefox. (No problems with iplayer though.)
> >>
> >> Does anyone have it working with Firefox? (I'm on 10.4.11 intel)
> >
> > Ah, it works on my partner's macbook, which is almost identical to
> > mine... looks like there might be some other problem...
>
> That's interesting. Keep us updated on what the issue is.

If I can find it! I'm not sure what I've done (or installed) that would
cause this to happen just with Firefox. I upgraded to Firefox 3 to see
if that solved the problem, but it didn't. The video also works fine on
Opera, which I just tried.

> Speaking as a
> blind user, many sites that use a flash implementation don't work with
> VoiceOver at all, including the BBC's IPlayer. What happens is that
> VoiceOver doesn't even see the "play" button at all so this locks blind
> users out entirely.

I've also never managed to get flash to work with my bluetooth headset,
which can be annoying sometimes, as I listen to various news reports in
that format sometimes, while having to move around different rooms at
home...

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(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

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