AOL supports assistive technologies like screen readers and keyboard shortcuts and can be used without a mouse. Two such screen readers are NVDA, which supports email clients and web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox; and JAWS which supports web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
Keyboard shortcuts can be used to control the unified player on AOL video content.
Unified Player keyboard shortcuts
| Control | Keyboard Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Toggles Play and Pause | Enter |
| Play/Pause but also stops page scrolling | Space |
| If in fullscreen, takes back to the normal screen | Esc |
| Seeks forward 5 seconds | Left arrow |
| Seeks backward 5 seconds | Right arrow |
| Increase volume by 5% of the maximum | Up arrow |
| Decrease volume by 5% of the maximum | Down arrow |
| Enters or exits fullscreen mode | F |
| Mutes or unmutes the player volume | M |
| Shows or hides closed captions if available | C |
| Rewinds the playback to the beginning | 0 |
| Reply all | A |
| Positions the play head to a predefined position. For example, on pressing key 1, playback is positioned to 10% of the timeline; pressing key 9, playback is positioned to 90% of the video. | 1-9 |