FreeLists / blindipod / [blindipod] Buying Albums, For all J-Tunes customers

["Brian Hartgen" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Next week, we will be revealing on the Main Menu program some of the many new 
features we have included within the upcoming version of the J-Tunes scripts 
for iTunes which I think you will like.  We will give details of the programme 
separately.  I will say now that one of the smaller features is that you can 
now purchase music tracks without sighted assistance to help you locate the Buy 
Track button first which is good news.

However, we still do not have the ability to purchase albums.  So I am asking 
for your help to please request that Apple give us a keystroke to purchase the 
focused album from which the track originates.

I have prepared some text which I have submitted to Apple via their feedback 
form on the web site and it may help if you could please complete the form and 
submit it to them.

There will be people on this list who will say that iTunes is largely 
inaccessible and so on, and we should discuss that in the feedback form. But 
with J-Tunes for those who have it, it is usable and the new features will help 
with accessibility and if you have any particular suggestions we would like to 
hear about those now.  However, I don't want us to get side-tracked on those 
issues.  It is much more likely that Apple would include a keystroke to do 
something which could be quite significant than to adapt their interface.  we 
have lost nothing by trying to ask them.

So if you are willing, you should go to

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

There are a number of fields in this form, including a comments field of 
course.  Specifically, in the Feedback Topic combo box you should select 
"Buying Music, Videos, or Audiobooks".

Here is the text you should paste into the comments edit box.  Of course this 
is a template and if you wish to adapt it please do.


I am a blind person who uses iTunes in conjunction with my screen-reading 
software which delivers the contents of the computer display using synthetic 
speech and Braille output.

Iam able to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to locate the song of my choice 
and my screen-reader will announce the originating album.  I can purchase an 
individual track.  

However, there is no keystroke available to purchase the album.  Due to the 
complexity of the itunes screens in terms of the layout of albums, it is not 
possible to activate the Buy Album button.

I would be willing to purchase far more music on-line if such a keystroke was 
put in place and given iTunes already has some keystrokes to control aspects of 
the Music Store it would be very useful if you could please include this.

Thank you.