[Blindtlk] Using Itunes with JAWS

Tue Aug 27 21:51:03 UTC 2013

You could well have been in Grid View. And the arrow keys don't always act
as you'd expect. But the behavior is usually consistent.

I found that 32-bit iTunes isn't nearly as snappy as 64-bit iTunes is
although it's doable. I don't know about memory constraints; I suspect it's
what libraries are being used that slows things down.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
Silverman
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:42 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Using Itunes with JAWS

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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