[Electronics-talk] new IPhone and ITunes

Sun Nov 8 13:49:00 UTC 2009

Well, I can't argue with you there, but I think Apple had to do there part
as well. I don't think any of the screen readers worked with iTunes until
iTunes 8 came out. Furthermore, I think all of the screen readers, except
maybe Screen Access, stopped working when iTunes 9 was released. To get
iTunes 9 working, there had to be an update to iTunes 9 as well as to JAWS
and Window Eyes.

Remember that as much as Apple has done for accessibility, and as much as
they should be praised for that, they don't always make business decisions
with accessibility at the top of the list, and I'm not necessarily saying
that they should. The iPhone wasn't accessible when it first came out.
Neither were the iPods. Ditto for iTunes. Also, don't forget that Apple also
sells Macs with Voice Over, so I'm not sure getting the Windows based
version of iTunes working with other screen readers is at the top of their
list.

--
Christopher
chaltain at gmail.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Campbell
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:55 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] new IPhone and ITunes

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the information.

I am using ITunes 9 with Jaws 11.

I will have to check on the Jtunes sccripts.
It's amazing to me that with ITunes being so popular, FS hasn't done more
toard making it accessible with JAWS..

Liz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
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Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] new IPhone and ITunes

> JAWS 10 supports iTunes 8. You could also update JAWS 8 and 9 to support
> iTunes 8 as well. The instructions are on the page Which JAWS releases
> support iTunes 8? At the URL
> http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/BulletinView.asp?QC=1302. Note
> that when iTunes 9 came out JAWS and Window Eyes stopped working with it.
> Getting the screen readers to work with iTunes 9 required an update to
> iTunes 9 as well as an update to each screen reader. I'm not sure what the
> status of this is since I'm not an iTunes user.
>
> Note that there's also a script package for JAWS called J-tunes, which 
> makes
> working with iTunes a lot easier. The URL for more information on J-Tunes 
> is
> at http://www.ngtvoice.com/products/software/tandt/jtunes.htm.
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher
> chaltain at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Smokey Joe
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:24 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] new IPhone and ITunes
>
> You might have better luck with JAWS Version 11.  They claim it works with
> iTunes, but you can't prove it by me.  I'm still trying to figure out what
> is going on in iTunes.  I don't have much experience manipulating stuff in
> music file structures and that seems to be the scheme for iTunes.
>
> System Access is also supposed to work with this new version of iTunes. 
> You
> can run it for free at http://www.satogo.com
>
> If you learn how to accomplish anything in iTunes, please report back and
> let me know how you did it.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth 
> Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:57 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] new IPhone and ITunes
>
> Hello all,
>
> If someone can contact me offf list, that would be great.
>
> I just got my IPhone,and I am doing pretty well with it, but I am having
> problems synking the IPhone with ITunes on my pc running Windows Vista. I
> have Jaws version 10.
>
> Is Jaws set up to work with ITunes, I'm trying to register my IPhone at 
> the
> ITunes store, but I am not having much success.
> Jaws doesnt' seem to read the sign up portion correctly,and I can't enter
> anyof the data that is required.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Liz Campbell
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