Description

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 post to include a video transcript, and can reference YouTube videos.

Additionally, you can upload multiple formats of your video files to improve browser compatibility for your videos.

Translations

Available languages (in order of completeness):
German, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, French, Dutch

Visit the Accessible Video Library translations site to check the progress of a translation.

Translating my plug-ins is always appreciated. Visit my translations site to start getting your language into shape!

Translator Credits

Screenshots

Accessible Video Library posts page
Accessible Video Library meta box

Installation

Upload the /accessible-video-library/ directory into your WordPress plugins directory.
Activate the plugin on your WordPress plugins page
Start uploading your videos and captions!

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Upload the /accessible-video-library/ directory into your WordPress plugins directory.
Activate the plugin on your WordPress plugins page
Start uploading your videos and captions!

My transcript links go to a 404 error. How can I fix that?

Go to Settings > Permalinks and update your permalinks format — the issue is that the permalink format for AVL isn’t being understood by WordPress, and needs to be registered.

Reviews

rezabsh February 12, 2020

this is the best plugin that you want subtitles works well all things work well download it and enjoy a free and good plugin better than none-free مچکرم مرد نجاتم دادی

soheil1986 September 3, 2016

Hi, This plugin is the only one that I could find to play videos with subtitles. I tested more than five plugins that claimed to support subtitles but this one is the only one that worked. It plays videos from external server as well as local, but subtitles only work when they are on the local server (the don't work from external server which is not important for me). It would be great if some more features are added, especially video auto-play by loading the page. Regards, Soheil

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Contributors & Developers

“Accessible Video Library” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Joe Dolson

“Accessible Video Library” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Accessible Video Library” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.2.1

Bug fix: override some AVL CSS in fullscreen.
Change profile URL.

1.2.0

Updated tested to 4.9; Updated requires to 4.9
Bug fix: exclude audio CSS
Support YouTube videos using native MediaElement implementation.
Support Vimeo videos
Update code style.
Misc. visual changes.
Show video in video admin.

1.1.3

Updated tested to 4.6
Bug fix: must include a ‘src’ parameter; format-only parameters no longer generate video code.

1.1.2

Updated tested to
Fix textdomains

1.1.1

Filter on MEJS settings ‘avl_mediaelement_args’
Option to enable subtitle/caption by default.
Bug fix: URL replacement supports broader variety of YouTube URLs
Bug fix: No height on video player in some contexts.
Bug fix: Subtitles would only show up if Captions were also added.
Updated mediaelementjs init file.
Now requiring WP version 4.0
Added translations: German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Dutch

1.1.0

Feature: Introduces option for responsive videos.
Bug fix: Use reply-to header instead of from header in support messages.
Bug fix: Support form submitted to wrong page.
Bug fix: change mime-type for DFXP subtitle format
Bug fix: Provide default height/width if not available.

1.0.7

Bug fixes: avl_media shortcode.
Bug fix: JS was stripping base URL from inserted URLs, but that breaks if site is not at root.
New attributes in avl_media shortcode: orderby and order

1.0.6

Bug fix: Various textdomain issues.
Bug fix: Menu position potential collision.

1.0.5

[CSS] Fix text issue if placed immediately next to shortcode.
[CSS] Added styling to caption selector controls to increase accessibility of hover state.
Bug fix: extra space in video parameters broke non-attached videos.
Bug fix: video disappeared for transcripted YouTube-only videos.
Thanks to Graham Armfield for patient testing!

1.0.4

Added support for DFXP format caption files.
Added filters to filter videos to only those without captions or transcripts.

1.0.3

Bug fix: broken uploader.js

1.0.2

Figured out how to force alwaysShowControls to true, so keyboard & touch accessibility is more reliable.
Adjusted video control bar to appear below video.
Increased default font size on captions from 12px to 14px.

1.0.1

Moved Help into Video submenu
Added shortcode note into post meta box.
Added ID column to Video posts screen.

1.0.0

Initial release.

BEST PLUGIN

Very good video plugin especially for subtitles.