[nabs-l] Ipod and itunes

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi all,
I use jaws 10.  I have the recent version of itunes.
However, I find a big accessibility problem.  I thought it was going to be 
more accessible.
After I search and play the song sample, I cannot buy it.  I've been told 
there is a grey buy link you need to click on to buy the individual song.  I 
cannot get jaws to find it.  Jaws will let me find whole albums and buy 
them, but not songs.  I'm hoping to find a number to call itunes and allert 
them to this problem.  After I have sighted help to buy a song, I can 
navigate with jaws to play songs.

If you find other inaccessible features, I hope you inform itunes.  Only if 
multiple blind people complain will they change and make it friendly to 
nonvisual access.

Ashley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <cassonw at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Ipod and itunes


> Hi all,
>
> first, Amy says that iTunes does not support mp3 this is incorrect.  Also,
> iTunes has made many improvements in accessibility in version 8 and i use
> win-eyes 7 and the few glitches there seemed to be in version 8 orf iTunes
> have been worked out in 8.1.   note that iTunes is still not accessible to
> version 6 of wineyes due to its lack of scrypting ability.  I have heard 
> and
> it seems to be the opinion of those on the list who use it, that version 
> 10
> of jaws works well with iTunes.
>
> As for iPods, the 4th generation iPod Nano has fully speaking menus and
> track info.  Note there are some features and settings are not spoken.
> iTunes is required for this to work.  it uses the default voice that is 
> set
> in windows or the default voice set for voiceover in macs.
>
> Here is the link to the page on apples website pertaining to accessibility
> for the iPod and iTunes.
> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/itunes/vision.html
>
> Hope this is helpful.  Feel free to email me if you would like more 
> details
> Bill
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Amy Sabo <amylsabo at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> hello ashely and all,
>>
>> to answer your questions about the ipod and the itunes here it is along
>> with my opinion on it too! the ipod in my mind isn't accessible at all 
>> and
>> before jfw 10 came along the software wasn't accessible at all. but, i 
>> could
>> be wrong on it since i haven't gone to it since the release of jfw 10 and
>> played around with it myself.
>>
>> i would recommend if i were you to use a accessible mp3 player like the
>> victor stream to listen to your music. it's soooo accessible in putting
>> music onto the player. for putting the music onto the player the songs 
>> need
>> to be in mp3 format and itunes doesn't support music in that format.
>>
>> so, that's my forte and 2 cents worth on this topic. but, i'm sure that
>> others on this list will be happy to chime in with their comments and
>> suggestion for this topic. take care and i will talk to you all soon!
>>
>>
>>
>> hugs,
>> from amy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: Ashley Bramlett
>>
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>
>> Sent: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:01:13 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Ipod and itunes
>>
>>
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> We all like music of some kind.  What accessible Ipods are ut there?  I
>> know the Ipod shuffle is usable because it has tactile buttons and no 
>> visual
>> display.  Is itunes accessible?  If there are problems what are they?
>>
>> I'm going to use itunes to get music and would access it independently if 
>> i
>> can.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ashley
>>
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