[nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

[Mike Freeman]

Tracy:

There has been a web site redesign. It's still useable but not quite as
straightforward as last year. I believe the redesign was to accommodate
logging in via Facebook. (Now perhaps people will understand why I think
social media should never have been invented -- grin).

When you go to the Media Center, use your JAWS list command -- the letter L
-- and look for a list of two items; it's the first such you'll come to on
the page. The first is a link to "log in" and the one after that is a link
to "log in via Facebook". If you click on the "log in" link, you'll be taken
to a login sequence much like that of BARD, i.e., JAWS will *not* go into
Forms mode but you can enter iyour information. When you've entered your
email address and password, click on the "log in" link. You won't see any
changes, that is, the email and password fields will still be there. But if
you back-tab above this, you'll find a "Close" button or link. Hit ENTER on
this and the LOGIN frame will disappear.

Now go bak to the top of the page. If you start reading down the page,
you'll eventually come to a bunch of nested lists, one set for each game.
There is no table for currently-playing games as there is on the Accessible
GameDay Audio page. Either search for the radio station you want and hit on
the link, in which case you'll get a version of the stand-alone player
something like that in the Accessible GameDay presentation, part of which is
to launch a window with the player in it but by default, the same window is
used. If you click on a TV feed, the accessible flash player will open in a
new window and you can get audio feeds that way also or TV feeds just as you
did last year.

The Accessible GameDay Audio page is much like it was last year except that
sometimes cookies persist so that, rather than logging in each time, you
look for a list item with one item which you will see as your name, i.e.,
you will still be loged in. if you don't see this, logging into the
Accessible page is, I believe, just like last year.

On the full Media Center page, there is a table of games -- but it's
*future* games. What sense this makes I haven't a clue.

Lainey Feingold, an ACB legal eagle, has close ties with the MLB
accessibility folks. I suggest that if you can't figure it out, you write to
her at <lf at lflegal.com> and complain. I roared at the beginning of the
season but figured I tell her that although the system is much weirder than
last year, I could still use it.

So much for ACB giving MLB the Vernon Henley award last year!

I don't spose this makes much sense but hope it helps.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:55 PM
To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

I am having a terrible time accessing MLB Gameday audio with any kind of
reliability.  I've called the Help line, but they were not very helpful.
I go to mlb.com/mediacenter, and it should give me a list of games, or ask
me for my login.  It does neither.  It doesn't seem to be displaying the
whole screen.  Sometimes there is a header at the bottom saying
"mediacenter" and sometimes not.  Often at the bottom it says "login
frame" and "login frame end", and Jaws makes the little noise it makes
when it's in forms mode, but  I can't actually type anything.
The Help person had me delete my browsing history the other day, and
eventually
I got to the games, but that didn't work today.

I'm using the same netbook I used last year, and it  worked fine then. 
Why not now?
I'm so confused.
Anyone know what's happening?
Tracy



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