Re: Need instructions for Winamp 5.08
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:42:08 -0500 (CDT)
The program is extremely screen-reader-friendly. Hit control+p to get into
preferences. Explore these preferences by moving up and down the tree
view. Tabbing around from any item in that tree view will give you options
associated with that, and you can open some items and get more options.
Bruce
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Yardbird wrote:
> Moti,
> Thanks, but I do understand these things already. I'm just really
> uncomfortable not being able to simply explore the entire preferences menu
> and everything, and make settings the way I'd like to, selectively. I'm
> aware that the menu structure isn't a conventional Windows menu line,
> because I've read that and also because it's nearly impossible to figure out
> by doing the usual thing of pressing alt and expecting to be put in the menu
> line.
>
> If this thing is so beloved by so many blind screen reader jockeys, how do
> they achieve even some familiarity with its functions, let alone mastery?
>
> I'm really perplexed. I'm perfectly able to click on an .mp3 file and play
> it with Windows Media Player or Real Player, too, and even though I also am
> mystified by those programs' semi-accessible menus and inscrutable (to me)
> functions, they're far less obscure than Winamp appears to be. This is like
> playing music files with a rock or a candy bar or something.
>
> Ack. Sorry. Just frustrated.
>
> From: "Moti Azrad Musician & Piano-Tuner" <motia@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Need instructions for Winamp 5.08
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'm also new with winamp5.08 but I can say some things.
> Open winamp 5.08
> press: ctrl+p and then make sure that you are using the classic skin.
> If not, and you use the modern one, arrow to classic and enter on it.
> I think that it's enough and you can use every music file that you wish and
> winamp will be the first to jump and open it.
>
> I hope it helps you a little
>
> Moti
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> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jaws Lite"
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> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:14 AM
> Subject: Need instructions for Winamp 5.08
>
>
>> I just downloaded winamp 5.08 from the winamp4theblind site. And, as I
>> remembered from an earlier attempt to add Winamp to my software arsenal, I
>> can't for the life of me figure out how to operate it except to play an
>> .mp3
>> file and use the z, c and x keys for play, pause and stop. But I want to
>> explore the menus to get an overview of its functions and adjustments, and
>> every time I try to do that I wind up in trouble. Once I somehow changed
>> the interface so that it enlarged (I could see this happen) and then kept
>> saying I was in the Library, and I couldn't understand the few controls
>> that
>> spoke when I tabbed around, and I couldn't exit the area, nor exit the
>> program, as Alt F4 didn't do anything. Another time, I got stuck in that
>> library thing again, but Alt F4 exited for me.
>>
>> Anyway, I even managed to blunder my way into the help file, but I
>> couldn't
>> navigate this worth a damn, either, no matter how I tried to use what
>> sounded like a tree or book structure, use F6 to switch panes, or
>> anything.
>> It was a Jaws nightmare.
>>
>> I don't recall seeing a link for just some instructions for screen reader
>> users on that winamp4the blind site, don't know why. Can anyone point me
>> to
>> some way I could read up on how to master this program, which for some
>> reason is so popular among blind users?
>>
>> thanks,
>> daniel
>>
>>
>>
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