AOL supports assistive technologies like screen readers and keyboard shortcuts and can be used without a mouse. Two such screen readers are NVDA, which supports email clients and web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox; and JAWS which supports web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
Keyboard shortcuts can be used to control the unified player on AOL video content.
Unified Player keyboard shortcuts
Control | Keyboard Shortcut |
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Toggles Play and Pause | Enter |
Play/Pause but also stops page scrolling | Space |
If in fullscreen, takes back to the normal screen | Esc |
Seeks forward 5 seconds | Left arrow |
Seeks backward 5 seconds | Right arrow |
Increase volume by 5% of the maximum | Up arrow |
Decrease volume by 5% of the maximum | Down arrow |
Enters or exits fullscreen mode | F |
Mutes or unmutes the player volume | M |
Shows or hides closed captions if available | C |
Rewinds the playback to the beginning | 0 |
Reply all | A |
Positions the play head to a predefined position. For example, on pressing key 1, playback is positioned to 10% of the timeline; pressing key 9, playback is positioned to 90% of the video. | 1-9 |