[access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS

  • From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:20:35 +0100

Yusuf

Many thanks for these details.  I have Real Alternative rather than
Realplayer, and that works very well when listening to radio broadcasts.  I
haven't tried getting Audible to use it, and wonder whether it would accept
Real Alternative.

I have downloaded the version of Audible Manager which says it allows you to
open files in Windows Media Player without running Audible Manager, and it
does seem to work, but I still find WMP not altogether intuitive.  I have a
Zen Stone, but am thinking of buying one of the specialist portable players
which are Audible ready such as Book Courier.  I haven't quite decided which
one to go for, as there is so much excitement about the Victor Stream, and
then there is the new one coming up in October, so it is all a bit confusing
until things settle down.  I shall be very pleased to hear from anyone who
buys these new gadgets to see how they get on with them.

Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Wendy


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Yusuf
Sent: 15 August 2007 11:43
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS

Wendy, Which version of the Audible software are you using? I have heard 
that the most recent version was very difficult to use with a screenreader. 
You might be better off uninstalling and finding an older version. I think 
Audible has older versions on their web site and if not I could send you a 
setup file for the version I am using which works relatively well with WE 
version 6.

I have found that sometimes shift tabbing out of the Audible software window

and then shift tabbing back in again makes a difference particularly when 
trying to navigate dialogues. Also as far as I remember the menues aren't 
always read correctly but if you cursor down in to them the options do read.

Do you have the real player on your computer? If so you might find that 
easier to use as your playback device. With that you can certainly rewind 
and fast forward, as well as jump by time increments. Although not by 
sections. Control Left cursor,  back, control right cursor forward, control 
e for jumping to a particular time.

Oh and finally, once you have the playback device that you want selected, 
you don't have to go into the audible software to load the book. If you go 
to the location where it is stored on your PC you can simply press enter on 
the file that you want to listen to which will launch either WMP, the real 
player or Audible's own player.

HTH
Yusuf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'UK access'" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: [access-uk] PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS


> Does anyone else have the same trouble as I do trying to get books from
> Audible to play?  I use JAWS version 6.1, and have Windows Media Player 
> 11.
> I can't seem to find my way around either Audible Manager or Window Media
> Player.  Lots of the functions of WMP such as previous, next, forward, 
> back,
> etc, are said to be unavailable.  I was listening to a book yesterday,
> stopped it to listen to a radio programme, and when I started it up again 
> it
> went back to the beginning, and I could make it go to a certain chapter to
> get to where I was before.  When I first launch Audible Manager the books
> list doesn't seem to be there.  Cursoring up and down just gives me one
> title with its details.  Tabbing back and forth sometimes brings the list
> up, but the titles are not read out, it just says selected, 4 of 11, which
> is no help.  I have to use JAWS cursor to search the screen and left click
> on a title to start it playing, but even that doesn't always work.  I have
> been using computers for about eighteen years, and am certainly well used 
> to
> Windows and JAWS, so what on earth am I missing here?  I have been through
> the help screens for both Audible Manager and WMP, and they refer to menus
> that don't appear to be there, such as the tools menu in Audible Manager.
>
> Wendy
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