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Add Media from External Services

Many external services provide an Application Programing Interface (API) to allow you to grab a piece of code and put it on another website which will display content from the external service. WordPress makes some of this content exchange easy. Streaming audio and video is as easy as pasting a URL address.

Due to security concerns some embed codes, such as from Ustream, are not allowed without assistance from the university Information Technology team. Send your request for these embed codes to help@sites.utexas.edu.

Before You Start

Images and media must adhere to legal requirements and policies of the university.

Streaming Audio & Video

To put streaming content on your website from an external service like YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud, you can simply insert the video or audio link address on a line by itself. While it differs from site to site, you can usually get a link by clicking a Share Link. As this option doesn’t pass current web accessibility standards, your embed needs a title attribute. To do this, utilize the WordPress embed short code with a title attribute, as you see in the image below.

Example of YouTube embed code with title attribute.

The title attribute serves a similar purpose as Alternate Text does for an image. Use all the same standards for developing a video title attribute as you would for creating image ALT text.

SoundCloud

Because we can’t use iFrames on UBS, the only option for WordPress is the Visual player.

Contrast: An accessible button color depends on the color of the background image. Work with this contrast checker to get  as close to accessible as it allows.

Title: To add the player to WordPress use Example of SoundCloud embed code and add a title.

Recommended

It’s always a good idea to have an alternate way to access multimedia.  For example, add a link directly to the video on YouTube or audio on SoundCloud.

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