[gui-talk] Installed new Winamp but can't touch it with Jaws

[George and Pamela Dominguez]

Because they don't think.  We are not even a blip on their radar.  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hmp" <humbertoa5369 at netzero.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Installed new Winamp but can't touch it with Jaws


> This is very unfair slightly by the fact that some software manufacturers 
> tend to make their software inaccessible. I have experienced this too. I 
> don't like it. Sometimes you upgrade to a newer version of that program, 
> and a screen reader doesn't touch it at all. Anyways, why are the software 
> developers this way? Why aren't they providing accessibility with screen 
> readers?
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
>>To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:59:10 -0800
>>Subject: [gui-talk] Installed new Winamp but can't touch it with
> Jaws
>
>>Remember I was trying to get rid of that update notice that was
> blockingh me
>>from Winamp? Well, I went to the Control Panel, Add/Remove
> Software, and
>>removed it. A dialogue said that a few files had been left
> behind, and I
>>could delete them if I liked.
>
>>So I  found the Winamp section of Program Files, and deleted
> every thing
>>there, which was mostly subfolders that said something about
> Add-Ons and
>>another that said Windows Detect. I figured I was doing the right
> thing.
>
>>well I founddownloaded and installed  the new free version of
> Winamp, and
>>because I chose to allow it to open when I finished the
> installation, a
>>brawny-sounding male voice said something about how great Winamp
> is, for a
>>few seconds. during this time, I could pause it, end it and/or
> start from
>>the beginning just like normal, but guess what? When I exited it
> then
>>pressed Enter to play one of my .mp3 music files (which I keep on
> my
>>computer, not in some library attached to a player program), the
> song played
>>and I could see the dark square that was Winamp, but I couldn't
> touch it
>>with the keyboard commands.
>
>>Anybody know why things happened this way? I'm really
> disappointed. I was
>>having so much trouble with that update invvitation that I went
> through all
>>this, and now it doesn't work right with Jaws.
>
>>I'll admit that all I care about is that Winamp lets you see
> stuff like
>>track name, length, how it was recorded or compressed, start,
> pause and
>>start it by will.
>
>>But what's all this about, anyway? Help!
>>Jole
>
>
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