Accessible Video Library WordPress Plugin
Generates a library for your video information where you can upload caption files, include transcripts, and upload subtitles for other languages.
Accessible Video Library solves a problem in WordPress: the ability to manage videos and manage critical associated media including captions, transcripts, and subtitles for each video.
In WordPress 3.6, WordPress incorporated the MediaElements.js library for showing videos. It's a good library, and includes native support for captions and internationalization, is keyboard accessible, and supports YouTube.
However, the WordPress implementation doesn't provide any method to add captions, subtitles, or reference YouTube videos. You can always embed YouTube videos using oEmbed, but these videos don't have much at all in the way of keyboard support.
Accessible Video Library gives you a custom post type that you can use to manage your video media. You can upload captions in .SRT or .DFXP format, upload subtitles also in .SRT or .DFXP format, use the content of the po
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Usage of Accessible Video Library over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 16 to 9 — down 7 (-43.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 9 | -2 |
| June 2024 | 11 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 11 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 11 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 11 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 12 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 12 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 13 | -4 |
| November 2023 | 17 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 16 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 17 | +1 |
| August 2023 | 16 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 16 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 16 | — |
Sites running Accessible Video Library
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