[nabs-l] Ipod and itunes

[Bill]

Hi again,

Forgot to discuss the shuffle.  So,the last version of the shuffle has
tactile buttons and is pretty useable if you don't care what songs you're
listening to.  The newest version of the shuffle, which i am not totaly sure
when it will be released but it has been announced, will have no buttons on
the device itself, but they will all be on a preprietary set of their cheep
bad sounding headphones.  This means of course first that if the headphones
break you have pretty much one choice to replace them and they will probably
be overpriced.  second, this means if you would like a set of good head
phones, you will be forced to buy a 20 or 30 dollar adapter in order to use
the device with other head phones.

As an editorial, i think prepriatary hardware is anti-consumer, and is
simply a ploy to force us to buy stuff from them so they can make more
money.  I also think that consumers should speak out against the new shuffle
by not buying it.  If enough people don't buy the device because it has
prepriatary headphones, maybe they won't do it for other devices or future
versions of the shuffle.

Hope the first part was helpful, sorry about the rant, but i think it
matters,
Bill

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Bill <cassonw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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