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For a paraplegic: Can't get YouTube videos to start playing with voice command on Fire Cube

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My father-in-law suffered a spinal cord injury and cannot use his arms, so everything has to be done without the remote. We installed Firefox on his Fire Cube.

Problem 1: We can open Firefox and see the 'main screen' options of "Pocket" "YouTube" "G Video Search" "IMDB" and so on. But we can't get YouTube to start up by using voice only.

Problem 2: After using the remote to launch YouTube, we can't search for a video. For example, if we want to watch the video named "Wheel Of Fortune SNL" on YouTube, if we say "Search (or Find) Wheel Of Fortune SNL", it takes us out of Firefox into the Fire Cube main search.

Problem 3: In YouTube on Firefox, we can only navigate by saying "Next video" and "Previous video" (and "Back"). But we can't actually make a video begin playing. While highlighting on a video, we've tried "start" "play" "watch" "select" "enter" "go" "return" "click" "start video" "select this video" "play this video" "watch this video"... but nothing we do will accomplish what pressing the 'select' button on the remote does (which is begin playing the video).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My father-in-law suffered a spinal cord injury and cannot use his arms, so everything has to be done without the remote. We installed Firefox on his Fire Cube. Problem 1: We can open Firefox and see the 'main screen' options of "Pocket" "YouTube" "G Video Search" "IMDB" and so on. But we can't get YouTube to start up by using voice only. Problem 2: After using the remote to launch YouTube, we can't search for a video. For example, if we want to watch the video named "Wheel Of Fortune SNL" on YouTube, if we say "Search (or Find) Wheel Of Fortune SNL", it takes us out of Firefox into the Fire Cube main search. Problem 3: In YouTube on Firefox, we can only navigate by saying "Next video" and "Previous video" (and "Back"). But we can't actually make a video begin playing. While highlighting on a video, we've tried "start" "play" "watch" "select" "enter" "go" "return" "click" "start video" "select this video" "play this video" "watch this video"... but nothing we do will accomplish what pressing the 'select' button on the remote does (which is begin playing the video). Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Paul
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Hi

Thank you for your question and I am sorry to hear of your father-in-law's injury.

I have contacted our developers and have been advised that we are still working the technology that would allow what you are looking for to be included in Firefox.

This is still a work in progress and I hope that we can bring this to Firefox in a future update.

marking70
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Thank you. That would be wonderful.

By the way, I should have put 'quadriplegic', not 'paraplegic'. He has no use of his arms and legs.