[jaws-uk] Re: probelms accessing bBC live and listen again
- From: chris miles <grrenfly@xxxxxxx>
- To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:54:34 +0000
On 22/11/2013 22:34, Paul Roberts wrote:
> Thanks Chris,
>
> I don't use webbie, as I had heard not all programmes were available on
> there, so decided not to use this.
>
> Just to add to my original mesage, I have tonight been on the Radio Six
> International site at:
> www.radiosix.com
>
> On there, there is a listen button or alternatively, you can listen to the
> station via realplayer, windows media player or winamp and I think there are
> sevearl others too.
>
> I managed to get the realplayer link to work but when I tried the listen
> button on the homepage, I once again got that update mesage, or something
> along those lines.
>
> When I tried the listen button again, the audio started.
>
> so, do I need to update Adobe as well?
>
> I did get an automatic adobe update mesage recently and whilst I have tended
> to struggle with such updates, I think I managed to cary out the update last
> time it came up.
>
> Also, how do i know waht programmes use flash.
>
> Thanks again for your response.
>
> Paull.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chris miles" <grrenfly@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:17 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: probelms accessing bBC live and listen again
>
>
> : On 21/11/2013 19:35, Paul Roberts wrote:
> : > Hi all,
> : >
> : > Firstly, apologies for cross posting but given the nature of my query, I
> : > wish to reach as many on both lists as is possible.
> : >
> : > I am a regular user of BBC Iplayer and mainly listen again and I listen
> live
> : > to at least one BBC local station each week, namely BBC Radio Kent.
> : >
> : > In addition to the BBC sites, I also regularly listn to roger day's
> Uncool
> : > Radio at:
> : > www.rogerday.co.uk
> : >
> : > In recent weeks, whenever I go to the listen live links of radio Kent or
> : > roger Day's site, I get a mesage teling me to update my media player.
> This
> : > by the way isn't any reference to Windows Media Player, as the bBC site
> i'm
> : > fairly certain uses realplayer and I suspect Roger Day's site does too.
> : >
> : > Now, a couple of week's ago, I decided to cary out the update but I got
> so
> : > far and then on the page, I found a "next" button and so pressed the
> enter
> : > key on this.
> : >
> : > Unfortunatley nothing happened and so it looks like I may not be able to
> : > fully complete the update without sighted assistance, which if this is
> the
> : > case, is a real pain.
> : >
> : > I should say that prior to atempting to do the update, I would cancel
> the
> : > message which came up on both sites and once I atempted to pres the
> listen
> : > live links, they'd come up as normal and I would hear audio.
> : >
> : > As of tonight, I am not now able to hear any audio on BBC sites, whether
> : > that be listen live or listen again, however I am geting audio via Roger
> : > Day's site, albeit once i've canceled the update message.
> : >
> : > I should say that I am using JAWS 12 and stil on IE7. Have attempted to
> : > upgrade to IE8 but without any luck as the microsoft site I was using to
> do
> : > the upgrade wouldn't let me complete it for some stupid reason.
> : >
> : > I was sent an alternative site to do the upgrade but this page doesn't
> : > appear to exist, or may have been temporarily down.
> : >
> : > I wonder if others, on trying BBC or other sites using realplayer have
> had
> : > this update mesage in recent weeks and if so, have you managed to
> : > successfully cary out the update. If so, then please could you let me
> know
> : > how you achieved this.
> : >
> : > Hope i've explained this clearly. Any help on updateing the realplayer
> or
> : > indeed any thoughts on getting to IE8 would be very much apreciated.
> : >
> : > Thanks
> : >
> : > Paul.
> : >
> : >
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> : Hi Paul,
> :
> : I have just tried the BBC Radio player from Webbie and had no trouble in
> : listening to Roger Day's programme on Radio Kent.
> :
> : It took a little while to start playing but then ok.
> :
> : I had a problem in accessing BBC accessible I Player when listening to
> : audio deslcribed programmes and had to update my copy of Adobi flash
> : player; however you also get McKafri virus scan with it.
> :
> : Also you need to use either Internet Explorer or Firefox for your
> : browser for accessing BBC programmes which use flash.
> :
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Hi Paul,
All I have found that when I tried to access something on Firefox I was
informed that my Adobi flash player was out of date and would I wish to
update it to a later version; which I did.
Sorry I do not know anything else about flash.
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