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In case anyone else was irritated by the inability to scrub through the auto-playing video, adding this CSS rule in your browser's dev tools should fix it:

    .vp-progress { display: block !important; }

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http://www.rombout.design/verticalwalking.html Has some video of pictures of it working so you don't have to wait blindly for it.

This should be on top.

It's also on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYqHWDt5wRk

Thank you. The lab that developed this set the video to be only viewable when embedded on their site, and my privacy tools mean vimeo thinks the video isn't being loaded via their site.

Absolutely baffling that they don't allow it to be viewed directly on vimeo.

...Almost as baffling as a video that is several minutes long and doesn't communicate in the slightest how the thing works.

> Almost as baffling as a video that is several minutes long and doesn't communicate in the slightest how the thing works.

This right there. Why is this even here? It feels like I'm A/B testing a launch campaign and I got the version where you need to figure shit out on your own

ying and yang of HN right here in this exchange haha!

Richard: I think it’s yin

Ron: What like yin and Yan?

Richard: No like yin and yang

Ron: No it’s ying and Yang they’re opposites

By the power of wordplay, pedants unite!

Eats shoots and leaves!

I miss that show.

Another also: right and left keys worked pretty well

It's infuriating, I can't rewatch a part I missed or skip ahead? And there's no volume control? I can't believe designers still are removing critical functionality to make it "cleaner".

Everyone knows that when you skin the video element, oops I err mean, craft a custom video player, the first thing you simply must do is hide the default controls.

Otherwise how will people know it's a custom video player

You can double tap the left side of the video to skip back 10 seconds at a time, and double tap the right side to skip forward

I can't, it doesn't work on desktop.

Try left and right arrow keys

Just tap harder.

right arrow key works on desktop. Didn't try left arrow.

And if you "pinch to zoom", it adds extra content!

Agreed, and particularly ironic in a video promoting an accessibility product. Like, what?

One actually useful function of the macbook touch bar is that it gives you an always-on scrubber.

Seriously! I didn't realise how much I used this feature because I've found myself missing it on my 2021 MBP multiple times :(

I had a 2016 MBP for a while and never noticed it once. Interesting how we all get set in particular set of usage patterns. I might have liked it more if I'd ever even noticed that. Maybe it wasn't something that was as exposed in 2016?

It's a Safari-only feature, so it's possible you never noticed it if you used Chrome

Thanks. Strange. I did use safari quite a bit (still do - better battery life) but still don't remember it.

Realisation: you could do this with any modern touchpad.

Realisation 2: you could trap scroll events and implement the whole thing in-browser.

...hmmmm, interesting...

Is that actually true for all videos?

Lots of sites that refuse to use standard video embedding, and my intuition says those would block the scrubber.

I've never seen it not work. It even works for embedded audio, like alert beeps. I'm sure YouTube had some way to stop you using it on ads, but I block those anyway.

Fascinating!

Makes me want to dig in and reverse engineer it

Its so stupid to hide this and and inhibit people to understand what this is all about.

Given that the video and product are about an assistive technology, even moreso.

Ain't marketing hostility grand?

you can use arrow keys

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