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

[Chris Bruinenberg <chbruin7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey brian,
I will fill out that form.
however, i think i may have come up with a simple way to purchase *not 
all* but most full albums on itunes.
with the scrips  go to the itunes music store.
type in a cd name.
look for the price of the cd. then once your jaws curser is on it.  
press right arrow two times.
then left mouse button.
then for some odd reason, you have to move the errow key to the right 
once.  I'm guessing its to expand the thing.
it works for me.
again, not all cd's will work this way.
however, i'm very excited for the itunes scripts to  be updated.
keep up the great work and if you have any questions on my approach let 
me know.
thanks,
chris


Brian Hartgen wrote:
> 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.
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Have a nice day,
Chris

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