[nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

Fri Apr 20 16:26:53 UTC 2012

I don't know.

What happens if you refresh the screen?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:43 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

That's what I, and the MLB person, thought, that I'm already logged in. 
But why isn't the whole page displaying?  It stops after the first long
list, that ends with "tickets".  Sometimes it shows the Mediacenter
heading after that, but not always.  Why isn't the whole page coming up?
I have IE8 on my netbook, but it's not yelling at me that the webpage
doesn't work with my browser version.

If sighted people had to spend hours trying to get to Gameday, they
wouldn't have any customers. Grumble growl.
Tracy

> Yes, you're already logged in if you get a "welcome" message. You should
> then start looking for those nested lists if you're on the main media
> Center
> page.
>
> Why if it worked well last year is it confusing now? Good question.
> Frankly,
> light-dependent persons can't seem to leave anything alone for more than
> five seconds for fear someone will steal a march on them. I think both NFB
> and ACB should have an award for the web page that has stayed unchanged
> the
> longest! Could we call it the un-Bolotin Award?
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 4:53 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio
>
> Thanks Mike.  It does make sense, but it's not what's happening to me.  I
> know the list you speak of, that should say Login, but instead I get a
> link
> that says Welcome.  This seems to indicate that I am already logged in
> automagically.
> I do not reliabally get the other lists of radio stations (though I've
> been
> looking for tables, so that's good to know.)  I have read every link on
> the
> page I get, and no lists.  The whole thing seems to be truncated.
> Maybe I'll try the ACB person.  Last year, I had trouble, but MLB was very
> helpful.  They had a whole script for screen readers.  This year, they
> seem
> pretty clueless.  I did open a ticket with them, but it's been a week and
> no
> one has contacted me.  Why is something that should be easy and fun so
> painful?!
> Thanks for the info.
> Tracy
>> 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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