[Blindtlk] Using Itunes with JAWS

[Arielle Silverman]

I was using tab to move around the screen. It would say something like
"Artists, All Artists" and then when I would try to press down-arrow
to move to the next artist in the list it would say nothing. Or
sometimes it would work but then when I closed ITunes and opened it
again it wouldn't read the list anymore. It was inconsistent. Maybe it
was in "grid view" not list view? Also, my system is 32-bit and it's
on a netbook. Are there memory constraints?

Thanks,
Arielle

On 8/27/13, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Arielle:
>
> On the contrary, iTunes is quite accessible. But it's accessible in much
> the
> same way as Blio's PC implementation is: that is, fields don't always show
> up when you hit the JAWS Say-line combination and you hear what's coming up
> by hitting the tab key and using keyboard shortcuts.
>
> It's a good idea to do quite a bit of exploring; the tab key moves you
> between fields and F6 moves you to larger divisions within the program.
> It's
> a good idea to go through and set your preferences (Control-comma does
> this,
> if I recall) and going through the various menus (File, View, etc.) will
> both give you some ability to execute commands and choices and to set up
> the
> appearance the way you want -- like setting list views as opposed to grid
> views.
>
> I highly recommend to go to the freedom Scientific website and listen to
> several of Jonathan Mosen's FSCasts on iTunes; you'll find that things are
> quite a bit clearer after doing this.
>
> For instance, when pointing to a song, you can hit the Applications Key and
> one of the choices is to "Add to Playlist".
>
> Itunes has many possible choices and configurations; you can use the usual
> tree structure for devices or you can choose a menu structure where buttons
> (executed with the spacebar) will open certain options or choices. There's
> far more to go through than I can in this single message. First-letter
> navigation works in most list views but you'll have to figure out by trial
> and error where it works and where it doesn't and when it's easier to look
> for a button and when it's easier to use the File Menu to take certain
> actions.
>
> I use iTunes almost exclusively for listening to favorite radio stations
> these days and I have playlists such as "All News Radio Stations" and a
> bunch of my music.
>
> It's definitely a different experience but, especially with your 64-bit
> system, itunes is farily responsive once you get used to it.
>
> Please check out those FSCasts. If you can't find them, I might be
> prevailed
> upon to download them, zip them up and put them in my public Dropbox folder
> for you to grab.
>
> I wouldn't bother with BlindTunes as you never know when iTunes is going to
> be updated.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
> Silverman
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 7:52 PM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Using Itunes with JAWS
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a little late to the party on this, but trying to figure out how
> to use ITunes on my PC. I am running Windows 7 and JAWS 14. I have
> been playing around with ITunes and on its own it is not very
> accessible. I can navigate to and play songs, but navigation is slow
> (just one song at a time, I can't use first-letter navigation) and
> when I try to copy songs to a playlist, I can't reliably select the
> right songs and sometimes I can't even see all the songs in my
> library. A friend suggested scripts from
> www.blindtunes.net
> I tried downloading the scripts but during the setup process, when I
> specify that I want them installed into JAWS 14, I get the following
> error message:
> Runtime error (at 10:646): out of range.
> It gives me no choice but to press OK and abort setup. Does anyone
> know why I am getting this error and how I can successfully install
> the BlindTunes scripts? Is it because I still have JAWS 11 installed?
> If I can't use the BlindTunes scripts, do you have any tips for
> playlist creation in ITunes? Thanks!
>
> Arielle
>
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