Re: rhapsody scripts
- From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:53:50 -0400
I haven't used it, but I have saved these two messages for the time when I
have the time to try it.
The two messages are below. First message.
First, load Rhapsody and go into the Jaws configuration manager to make a
file for Rhapsody. This will make your life easier. Go to the HTML settings
and go to the tab about headings and frames. Make sure it announces that
you're entering and leaving frames and that it speaks headings for you.
Under the misc tab, make sure it reads element attributes and also turn off
flash movies. Save the config file and you're ready to have a go at this.
Once Rhapsody is installed and you sign in, your PC cursor won't move
around. Route your Jaws cursor to pc and begin reading the screen with your
Jaws cursor. Once you see something that says browse genres or staff picks,
click on that with the Jaws key for the left mouse button. This will bring
the window into focus and will put it all in the virtual cursor. After that,
you can read the site like a web page. If you have to tab away from the
Rhapsody window to answer a message or something, you will have to repeat
this step to get Jaws to read in virtual cursor mode again.
Now that it's reading like a web page, you can search for songs or artists,
or you can browse genres just like on a web site. Make liberal use of your h
key for headings and your m key for frames. Use your f key to find the form
where you can type in search terms when you want to go that route. You'll
notice that the top frame has navigation links in it. The middle frame
contains a list of all of the albums by an artist or contains your search
results. The next frame has the actual list of songs on the album along with
play album and download to library buttons at the beginning of the frame.
Once you find a song you want to listen to, you have two choices. Above the
song title, you will find two graphical buttons. One says play and the other
says download. Playing is easiest for us. If you want to download songs,
choose download and let a few minutes go by. You cannot see the download
progress with Jaws, and the Rhapsody library is only quirkily useful. The
solution to playing downloaded music is to use Windows Media Player to
actually listen to your downloaded tunes. By default, Rhapsody puts your
downloaded music in your My Music folder in the My Documents folder on your
machine. Once you've downloaded to your heart's content, exit Rhapsody and
load Media Player to sort or play your tunes.
As for CD burning, I haven't figured out how to do that. Same thing with
transferring songs to your mp3 player. Maybe MediaPlayer will let you do it.
I'm lost on that score.
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Second message: I've had a great deal of success by doing the following, and
it's really easy. After you enter your password, just do a left mouse click
with the jaws cursor. If this doesn't bring up the program immediately, do
the following: First, activate the jaws cursor. Find the list of genre
categories by moving the jaws cursor to which ever category you would most
likely be interested in exploring. Then, simply do a left click. You will
now have total access to the program. It is just a multi-frame simple web
page, really, that the virtual cursor reads quite nicely one it knows it
should. You can even use html quick keys like F to find the edit box where
you can run a title or artist search. Quite cool.
Hope this works for you, to.
--RIB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <msoct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: rhapsody scripts
Hello. I was wondering if anyone knows where I would be able to get scripts
for jaws to make the rhapsody music program more accessible, or if anyone
knows any keyboard shortcuts to accomplish this. Any ehlp would be
appreciated. Thank you.
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