[nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

Fri Apr 20 16:43:39 UTC 2012

The Portland winterhawks Western Hockey League Team broadcasts its games
from low-powered FM transmitters in its two venues -- the rose Garden and
Veterans' Memorial Coloseum because the station that carries the games
doesn't penetrate the steel very well and, in any event, it carries only the
Friday evening games; the rest of the games are carried on the web so one
would need an i-device to listen to them.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Hyde, David W. (ESC)
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:27 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

No they don't. They have a low-powered FM signal.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 10:13 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio

> Milwaukee does have a live feed for the park, but they need bigger 
> hamsters to power it.

Oh ya?  Our radios work fine at Citifield, but, when we went to a hockey
game, our radios did not work in the arena.  My husband talked to customer
service about it, and they'd never actually thought about it.  Does
Milwaukee give a patron a headset to pick up the live feed?
Tracy

> I must admit that I prefer the app on my iPhone. It seems to work 
> well, and I don't need to be on a computer. And yes, I know that not 
> everyone has one. I still would like something that works at the back
park.
> Milwaukee does have a live feed for the park, but they need bigger 
> hamsters to power it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:47 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio
>
> LOL. I'm not going to say any names, but there seem to be certain 
> major companies who are notorious for this with their software...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] MLB Gameday audio
>
>
>> 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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