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How does Able Player (v5.0.0) deliver text-based and separate-video audio description, and what are its documented gaps?

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Able Player 5.0.0 (MIT) offers two audio-description routes: a WebVTT descriptions track voiced through the browser's Web Speech API (or written to an ARIA live region), or a separate described-video file (data-desc-src). It can pause the video while a description is read, and puts descriptions in its transcript. Open issues report description problems on iOS and Safari. Curator qualifications: Specs, docs and code read 2026-10-22; no browser or player tested. Issue thread details (getVoices empty; iOS needs user interaction) carried from producer reading. Limitations: Specs, docs and code read 2026-10-22; no browser or player tested. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/blob/8d235f977689f310a074b3ddcf68e8d19a7ed4ae/README.md",
      "note": "Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/blob/8d235f977689f310a074b3ddcf68e8d19a7ed4ae/changelog.md",
      "note": "Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/blob/8d235f977689f310a074b3ddcf68e8d19a7ed4ae/LICENSE",
      "note": "Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/issues/548",
      "note": "Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/issues/559",
      "note": "Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Able Player 5.0.0 (MIT) offers two audio-description routes: a WebVTT descriptions track voiced through the browser's Web Speech API (or written to an ARIA live region), or a separate described-video file (data-desc-src). It can pause the video while a description is read, and puts descriptions in its transcript. Open issues report description problems on iOS and Safari. · locator: Able Player README @8d235f9 (v5.0.0) Audio Description section; Able Player LICENSE; GitHub issue 548; GitHub issue 559 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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