Hi. See this is a good tip, thanks for that one Yardbird! I should emphasize though, that these are JAWS script specific commands, so if you're working with another sighted person and JAWS isn't running, or if you happen to be using another screenreader for whatever reason, those commands won't work. But once JAWS is running, they do and they work really well for me too.
Unfortunately not all of the media players let you do this. People ask me why I'm such a Winamp fan, and that's one of the reasons, flexibility! Yay for Winamp!
At 01:03 AM 12/13/2007, you wrote:
I think it was here that we had a thread about this recently? And Don Moore described the setup he uses with a second sound card and some hardware and cables? Well, I was wondering if any other solution might be possible, and I took a look at a list of commands I have for the player Winamp, which a lot of blind computer users seem to favor for various reasons. Well, sure enough, there were a couple of hotkeys for setting the Winamp playback volume in several steps from zero to 33 per cent to 66 per cent to maximum. So I set it to 33 per cent, then clicked on a track from a jazz album in one of my folders, and then resumed working with Jaws. Well, it was a perfect balance. The music was just loud enough to really hear distinctly, instead of soft musch, and Jaws was louder by far, so there was no aural conflict or annoyance. Other Winamp users might want to try this. alt control confict bar f a hotkey commandws These commands are: alt control m for mute alt control comma for 33 per cent alt control period for 66 per cent alt control slash for maximum And of course, you could use the up and down arrow keys to raise and lower the volume, as well. Just find a level that's loud enough to hear as well as you wish to but not loud enough to conflict with Jaws. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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