The YourTooby Web Page
A Simplified, Low Clutter, Accessible YouTube Video Viewer Web Page With (Tab/Space Bar or Tab/Enter Key Navigable) Controls
Now the YourTooby page has text-to-speech based auditory scan support!
The link above or below will send you to a YourTooby web page. This page offers a large video window and little else except control buttons below the video window. It works well with interactive whiteboards or touchscreens.
The default playlist will load a set of Kid President videos. You can specify whatever video you like, or generate your own playlist.
Click on the "Show Options" label above the video window.
This Feature No Longer Works:
In the drop down menu that appears, type a search phrase into the "Create a YouTube playlist..." text box, and then click the "Get Videos" button. The result is a playlist with as many as 20 videos. If you are using Your Tooby pages with students, you should preview the videos returned from the playlist request for appropriate content. The list can't be edited. The list is circular. After you play the last video on the list the next video button will take you back to the first video. All items on the video list will automatically play unless a video is paused. Sometimes, videos can not play inside Your Tooby page, or other errors can occur, and usually these videos will just be skipped over..
But you can still play YouTube videos by:
Paste the 11 character YouTube video identifier into the text box labeled "Identify a particular YouTube Video by Id " and then click "Get Video".
You can use the control buttons at the bottom of the screen to:
Go to the previous video on the list,
Go back halfway to the beginning of this video,
Go back 10 seconds in this video,
Play, Pause,
Go forward 10 seconds in this video,
Go forward halfway to the end of this video,
Go to the next video on the list
All buttons are navigable using Tab to move focus and Space to select the button with the focus. The page works in modern browsers, but works best in Chrome.
You can remove unwanted buttons from view by un-checking a button's associated label at the bottom of the "Show Options" drop down menu. The auditory scan page opens with auditory descriptions of the scanned (and clicked) buttons. Auditory support can be turned off in the Show Options drop down menu. The new auditory support link also will look better in different size browser windows.
Here is the new YourTooby with text-to-speech auditory scan support
Let me know what you think! Thanks,
Jim Luther
j a m j o l u @ g m a i l . c o m