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The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Head of Audience Experience & Usability, Jonathan Hassell, has recently written an important post on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog, discussing the release of some long-awaited updates to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer service. The new version adds the ability for blind users to tab around all of its controls - including the volume and the timeline (so you can skip forward or back in a programme) - using only the keyboard.

This is not just a good thing for blind and visually impaired people, either. Anyone with dexterity impairments can now use just two keys - tab and space/enter - to control the iPlayer's functions.

You can read all the technical details - plus news of a second set of improvements still to come, which will provide an additional set of keyboard shortcuts allowing keyboard users to control all of the player's functions directly - by clicking over to Jonathan's blog post.