Try going to a forms element and put it in forms mode. I have had success with that and since youtube is flash content you would be clicking buttons like in any other flash animation.

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From: Catherine Getchell  <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, October 2, 2015 8:48 pm
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] YouTube controls

>
>
> Hi Ana,
> Interesting.  I tried this with Youtube and JAWS and couldn't seem to
> make the shortcuts work.  JAWS was interpreting my use of the arrow
> keys and other keyboard commands as JAWS navigation commands.  When I
> hit the right and left arrow keys, it behaved like it would do on any
> webpage and read me letter by letter.  When I hit l, it tried to take
> me to a list on the page.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> On 10/2/15, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was Googling something else and discovered that YouTube has some nifty
> > keyboard shortcuts. I'm posting them in case others of you didn't know
> > them either.
> >
> > To play/pause a video, hit the spacebar.
> >
> > To fast forward or rewind by 5 seconds, tap the right- or left-arrow key.
> >
> > To fast forward or rewind by 10 seconds, tap the letter l or just.
> >
> > To fast forward or rewind longer, hold down the right- or left-arrow key.
> >
> > To jump to the 10, 20, 30 ... percent point in the video, hit the 1, 2,
> > 3 ... on the keyboard.
> >
> > I just tried the shortcuts, and they do work. You have to give the video
> > a couple of seconds to start playing. I don't know if focus is moving to
> > the seek control during that time. The screen reader does chatter, but
> > you can tap the control key to shut it up.
> >
> > Just passing it along.
> >
> > ciao
> >
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