Externally Hosted Video

The video chunk lets you add externally hosted videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Kaltura to your webpage.

Embedded videos are required by IU policy to have alternatives like transcripts, captions, and audio descriptions to make them accessible to more people. See the decision tree on the IU KB document Make video and audio accessible for details on what is required for accessibility.

Input Fields

Position

The video player can be positioned on the page in four ways: left, right, full, and breakout. The full position is the width of the column. The breakout position is the width of the page.

Video Type

The video chunk allows for four video types: YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and HTML5. Learn more about Kaltura, an Indiana University enterprise video platform.

Heading Level

Able Player injects an off-screen HTML heading “Media Player” at the top of the player so screen reader users can easily find the player. It automatically assigns a heading level one level deeper than the closest parent heading. Use this field to set the heading level manually if Able Player cannot correctly set the heading level based on your page hierarchy; otherwise, do not change this field.

Closed Captions (VTT file)

Captions are text overlays that display the dialogue or narration occurring in the video, as well as relevant sounds that might be important for understanding the content. You must provide captions for all live videos and most prerecorded videos. Closed Captions must be in the VTT file format. For more information on creating a VTT file, visit the World Wide Web Consortium website.

Audio description (VTT file)

Upload and attach a VTT (Video Text Track) file. A VTT file provides closed captions and subtitles for video content. For more information on creating a VTT file, visit the World Wide Web Consortium website.

You must provide an audio description for your videos if the visual information is not included in the audio. Please refer to the IU KB document "Make video and audio accessible" for more information.

URL

The URL of the video. Do not use URLs or code intended to embed a video player onto a webpage.

URL (described version)

The URL of the described version of the video. Do not use URLs or code intended to embed a video player onto a webpage. This must be different from the id of the non-described version.

Caption

Captions are text overlays that display the dialogue or narration occurring in the video and relevant sounds that might be important for understanding the content. You must provide captions for all live videos and most prerecorded videos. Your videos if the visual information is not included in the audio. Please refer to the IU KB document "Make video and audio accessible" for more information.

Transcript

Transcripts let everyone access a text version of the video. Transcripts are also important for search engines, which can index the transcript, improving search engine optimization (SEO).