Jackie, certainly points up the complexity of what needs to be done to
get the thing talking sensibly. I just wonder what's so difficult
about designing an interface that an add-on could plug into?
I hear these futuristic press releases of RNIB and their resident
guru, sorry 'scientist' Dr. John Gill, saying how they're developing
a strategy or whatever for making evryday appliances accessible, but
nothing over these last five years and more has ever seemed to come of
it.
Still, getting back to grim reality, looks as though your experience
might point the way to how we could get some usability from this
device with the right sort of help.
Cheers,
From Ray
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Jackie Cairns
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
Ray, the first thing that could be tagged is the setup process. When
you
turn it on, you are prompted with the welcome message and then invited
to
connect to your network wirelessly, so have to key in your security
code.
Once you get past that, it asks you if you want to select Windows
Media
Player, or stations. Having opted for stations, it then asks whether
you
want genre or location. We opted for location, which brought up a
whole
list of countries. All that could be spoken with tags up to that
point.
After that, it gets complicated, because you then have to scroll
through the
stations of that country which, I believe, are listed alphabetically.
I
think this is where some sort of text-to-speech recognition would need
to be
thought out as tagging would be useless.
I just can't see it happening to be honest, which is why I got fed up
with
the nonsense we are hearing from these organisations we all know and
love
(tongue in cheek here), and took the plunge. My theory was that if I
could
get a few stations out of it that were worth listening to, I would be
happy,
and so it has proved already.
Anyway, I'll post back if I get anything more sensible out of the
radio that
is at least going to be constructive to us. I certainly won't say you
can
do this without sight. Forget that! I think it is possible with some
memory
of what sequence to follow, but I need to sit and do this before I
could say
with certainty that it is feasible. I wouldn't ever mislead anybody.
Jackie
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