AblePlayer Changelog

4.7.0

New default theme with modernized layout and variables for colors.
- This summarizes a large number of individually small changes to the layour of AblePlayer elements.
Removed many instances of positioning imposed from JS so that more positioning is controllable from CSS.
Significant improvements to responsive desgin and behaviors.

Add support for synchronized sign language sourced from YouTube
Allow modal dialogs to be closed by clicking on the modal overlay.
Support toggling the transcript area when using a pre-defined transcript area.
Allow non-standard support for single character hours value in VTT timestamp formats.

Fix window resizing issue in sign language windows.
Reset scroll position after closing fullscreen to prevent unexpected shift of position.
Remove deprecated modestbranding parameter from YouTube player params.
Add origin property to YouTube player params.
Reduce fullscreen timeout from 1000ms to 100ms. Ensures the resize method executes when leaving fullscreen quickly.
Track active media so focus is sent to correct player after refreshing controls.
Change modal dialog positioning to fixed to prevent unexpected shifts of position.
Properly disable transcript with data-include-transcript="false"
Cookie referred to wrong variable when setting sign language data.
Prevent scrolling of background content when modals are active.
Allow the audio description text panel to show when there is both a VTT and a described video.
Handle data-skin set to invalid value.
Prevent floating windows from being positioned above the top of the viewport.
Ensure last block of captions in transcript are wrapped in .able-transcript-block.
Use outerHeight in several places where height was used so calculations account for whole element height.
Fix unwanted lines generated in lyrics mode.
Verify the target transcript div exists before setting the external div flag.
Support the default value for the kind attribute on source when omitted.

Ensure all Able Player controls meet WCAG SC 2.5.8 by being a minimum of 24px by 24px.
Make visible alerts dismissible
Extend default period of visibility for expiring alerts to 20 seconds.
Improve accessibility of draggable containers when using a screen reader. More predictable keyboard handling & audible feedback.

Change ableplayer.dist.js build to remove comments, reducing the dist file size by about 150Kb.
Simplify if/else statements. Use ternary or swithc where appropriate or collapse arguments.
Reformat if/else statements to remove line breaks before else.
Remove $ableColumnLeft - unused and unidentified variable.
Remove unneeed -moz and -mix prefixed fullscreen properties.
Only create a single alertBox container and move in DOM as needed instead of managing three separate containers.
Add new prototype to set the text for buttons.
Add new prototype to set icons for buttons.
Make use of existing ucfirst prototype.
Remove number.isInteger polyfill (already unused).
Remove tests for svg support.
Remove remaining IE compatibility supports.
Replace e.which with e.key.
Remove obsolete Safari keycodes.
Add prototype for syncing sign language video.
Remove unused prototype AblePlayer.prototype.isCloseToCorner.
Remove unused mediaType argument from AccessibleSlider prototype.

Change default skin to “2020”.
Removed IE-specific styles.
Fix overflowing bottom border on transcript container & set padding to fixed value.
Remove inline CSS forcing center alignment on dialog headings.
Improvements to dialog layout.
Increase size of volume slider.
Set video element to display: block; to prevent extra space after element.
Style updates to Video Transcript Sorter tool.
Force iframe to 100% max-width 100% to prevent overflowing container.
Updated transcript & sign language container settings, settings tooltip, and settings popup.

Fix data-vimeo-id loading.
Fix failure of Safari/MacOS on getVoices for speechSynthesis.
Improve speech initialization for Linux browsers.
Fix loading of preferences across players.
Replace deprecated jQuery methods: .click, .focus, .change, .keydown, $.trim(), and .isNumeric.
Extensive removals of unused variables and unused code.
Limit default maxwidth on transcript and sign containers to no larger than viewport.

Use inert to represent interactivity state of content outside of modals.
Remove role and aria-label on transcript containers if they are not inside a dialog.
Fix caption sizing on small viewports.
Render volume percentage in the initial volume button state & updates.
Fix translation rendering so Full Screen buttons are properly labeled.
Add aria-atomic="true" on the speed notification container.
tabindex missing from draggable toolbar, preventing focus from being sent and breaking keyboard support.
Update visible order of draggable toolbar controls, so focus order matches visible order.

Add support for secondary sign language locally when sourcing main video from YouTube.

Removed build tools, unbuilt scripts, demos, and media assets from the release archives. You will need to check out the repository to have access to these resources. Reduces the zip download from over 160 MB to under 1 MB.

The following people contributed to this release (if I missed you, please let me know!)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/compare/v4.5.1…v4.6.0