Video Player (deprecated version)

The template is deprecated.

Code

Embedding the video player:

{% include video-player.html
    yt-id="93UgG72os8M"
    captions="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard-en.vtt|en|Captions"
    descriptions=""
    yt-id-ad="1rBwxGMT9ZM"
    captions-ad="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard_ad-en.vtt|en|Captions"
    descriptions-ad="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard_ad_desc-en.vtt|en|Descriptions"
%}

Parameters

yt-id="93UgG72os8M"
yt-id-ad="1rBwxGMT9ZM"
YouTube ID of the video, -ad for the audio described version
captions="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard-en.vtt|en|Captions"
captions-ad="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard_ad-en.vtt|en|Captions"
Relative URL to the captioning file (caption = subtitle in the language of the video), -ad for the audio described version
subtitles="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard-de.vtt|de"
subtitles-ad="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard_ad-de.vtt|de"
Relative URL to the subtitle file, so translations of the captioning file.
descriptions-ad="/perspective-videos/cc/keyboard_ad_desc-en.vtt|en|Descriptions"
Text of the audio description

Caption/Subtitle/Description listings

The caption, subtitle, and description listings are all in a similar format:

path/to/file.vtt|lang-code|default

With |default only specified if that subtitle/caption should be the default selected one when opening the page. The language code (lang-code) is the code that we use for the translation, de for German, zh-hans for (Simplified Chinese), …

It is possible to concatenate multiple sets of those subtitles using commas. See the source code for the Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards page for a full-fledged example.

Example

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