[macvoiceover] Re: iTunes 7.5, & some general thoughts on VO/Leopard
- From: Keith Reedy <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:12:02 -0500
Hi Ron and all,
When you plug in your ipod now you will notice that you have much more
information about it and much more control over it.
Keith Reedy
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Ronald Johnson wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just downloaded iTunes 7.5 last evening, and got a very pleasant
surprise - the "Smart Playlist" editor is now fully accessible!!!
Ås to any other parts of iTunes, which are still inaccessible, I'm
uncertain if they've also been made accessible, at this point.
I was actually contemplating writing an eMail to accessibility@xxxxxxxxx
, to address this, and other issues (especially since I recently
read a response from them, on this list), but I guess this
particular issue no longer needs addressing!
As to Leopard, and VO, in general, I haven't really explored the OS,
or all the new features of VO, yet, but from what I've been seeing
in the help system, etc, I must say I'm quite impressed with all the
new feature-upgrades - especially to VO!
I'm particularly happy to see that we can now check out the
attributes of various text/link items on a web page, that it's lots
easier to navigate web pages, that there are expanded search
capabilities, and that many apps, such as iCal, now work properly
for us.
As to the installation of Leopard, itself: My sighted roommate, &
I, installed it on the Afternoon of the 26th. We had my
installation done by 3:30 PM, Central Daylight Time, and his done by
about 6 PM, CDT.
Before installation, we both did permission repairs, and ran Disc
Warrior 4, just to correct any major problems which existed in our
file/folder hierarchy, etc. My install (iMac G5), took
approximately 1 hour - his (1GHz eMac), took approximately 2 hours.
Both installs ran flawlessly.
The treasurer of our MUG, however, wasn't so lucky. He attempted to
install Leopard on a laptop, I believe, and it trashed his hard
drive. I don't think such issues are common, but, unfortunately,
they do exist. Having said all this, if there's anyone on this list
who still hasn't installed Leopard, don't hesitate to do so, when
the time comes! Just take reasonable precautions (i.e. backing up
your home folder, if you have the means to do so), just in case the
unthinkable should happen.
Oh, and one more thing. Does anyone on here know how to use the
keyboard-based drag-and-drop functionality which is supposed to be
built into VO now? The closest thing I've found in VO help, was
mention of how to organize items in the Dock, by holding down the
Option key, while selecting items. I know VO now has a "Mouse
Down" (VO-Command-Shift), and "Mouse Up" (VO-Command-Shift)
command. This is as close as I've actually come to doing the whole
drag-and-drop thing. This is a feature which has always intrigued
me, as I've wondered how it'd be possible for blind users to do drag-
and-drop, as our sighted counterparts do. They actually had an
implementation of it (I believe it worked for re-ordering items in
the Dock, and in lists, but not for moving files/folders in the
Finder) in the "Spoken Interface Preview", which I participated in,
but in the final release, it wasn't there. Any ideas?
Take care, and happy "Smart Playlist" creating!
Ron
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