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By the first of July 2014 all new norwegian websites are required to be accessible for vision and hearing impaired — and many other government institutions follow similar guidelines. That is one of the reasons why we’ve made a bunch of accessibility upgrades to our players. Optimized for vision and hearing impaired users, our players now includes keyboard shortcuts for navigation, volume, subtitles and text-labels for screen readers.

We have added the ability to link directly to a specific time in a video. An example is how Roskilde Festival is using this. Not only are they using our feature Sections (read more about this here) allowing visitors to browse thru a track list of songs, but also using the URL it self to link to as specific song, moment or memory in one of their festival videos.

We are exited about having released a whole new way of doing video protection and access maneuvering in 23 Video. Perviously supporting out of the box access restrictions on site level, we now also offer support video-level access restrictions:

Geo-blocking - Only visitors from specified geographic regions are allowed to play the video.

Password protection - Visitors need to input a password to play the video.

Custom API protection - Visitors need to be authenticated through your own servers to play video.

Paywall integrations - Read more about this here.  

To start playing with this feature you simply log in to your 23 Video account, click the video you want to protect and choose the option suitable for your video distribution.

You may have noticed that we recently updated the comments function? For 23 Video users this means goodies like more design options, a brand new user interface and several options for social log-in.  If you have an 23 Video account your username will automatically be detected as you are commenting. For your audience you can offer of a range of log-in options like Twitter, Facebook, Github and more. As a moderator you can have direct conversations with your audience, as the comments now are updated live. You'll also have the option of promoting specific comments on your page.

The comment field is now rich media-friendly. Simply add your photos, articles, links and videos. Your link will automatically be shortened, matching the title of the media you are adding. You are now probably wondering how to get it; When adding a comments layout-block to your video website you will automatically be updated with the newest version. Meaning — if you already have comments activated on your site simply de-activate it when adding the new block. Go to Design -> Layout in your 23 Video backend to get started and ping us if you have any questions.