Re: JFW workaround for pmn?
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 11:33:23 -0700
Hi Kevin,
Don't get me started on this... :-)
Actually, I have not spent a great deal of time with PMN as it remains
extremely difficult, almost impossible really, to use with JAWS or Window-Eyes.
Steve Holmes (http://www.holmesgrown.com) got it to work with Window-Eyes
after a fashion. He talks about it on episode #5 of his podcast.
The most significant problem is that the ability to add songs to the playlist
is an improperly coded HTML link anchor. FreedomBox is the only assistive
technology solution I know supports it directly. They implemented a work
around for this link late last year. So, if you happen to be a FreedomBox
subscriber, then you can, in fact, add tracks to your playlist on PMN and thus
download, report and play them as intended.
The Podshow folks could resolve this issue with five minutes or less of
programming time. Though other access issues remain, it would at least allow
us the use of the most essential functionality of PMN. Requests have been made
in the past to fix this but, alas, Podshow hasn't yet seen fit to address any
accessibility problems with PMN and, imho, the future of accessibility for
Podshow products and services doesn't look very good from my perspective, save
positive developments with CastBlaster.
Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Reves
To: blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: JFW workaround for pmn?
Hey everyone. Awhile back, someone had discovered a way to add songs to a
playlist on pmn using jaws. After talking to Matt Campbell, he said that when
you hit enter, you aren't really clicking the link. I remember someone talking
about this a while back, but can't find it in the archives. Would someone
kindly repost those instructions or point me to the archived post that contains
that info? Thanks so much.
Kevin Reeves
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