If you're a first-time Winamp user, I have to admit it's not immediately obvious since the interface is so unusual. However, the later versions of the major screenreaders have much much better support for Winamp. JAWS 13 and 14 have Winamp support as do earlier versions, and Window-eyes users can download an absolutely beautiful app created by Jeff Bishop, which allows for many features right from the keyboard. It's free so if you're running the latest Window-eyes 8.0 or 8.1, go grab it from app central and you'll see how great this thing is. As for NVDA users, there is an add-on floating around but i don't have the address for it. So while it doesn't seem immediately intuitive, simply pressing insert plus h should give you some hotkeys to get you going, no matter what screenreader you might be using.
On 2/26/2013 1:43 PM, Mike Bernard wrote:
Hi Arlene,I'm using Windows xp home edition. I remember specifically, when I first installed the program, the very first window that came up was a drop-down menu, asking me if I wanted the current or classic. That's really all it said. I assumed that they were refering to the skins, so I arrowed down to classic, and pressed next. I've heard from previous audio tutorials about Winamp being more accessible if you use the classic skins. If you press alt, or try to navigate with the numpad arrows, the screen reader doesn't appear to say anything. I don't know, but it just seems that Winamp is supposed to be easy to use, but for some reason, it isn't. At least not for those of us using screen readers.-----Original Message----- From: Arlene <nedster66@xxxxxxxxx> To: winamp4theblind <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 7:51 pmSubject: RE: creating playlists and using the media library in Winamp 5.63You know, I found that same problem with me. I wonder if these versions of winamp have changed? What version of windows are you running? I'm runningwindows 7. I thought because it's 7 it's different. -----Original Message----- From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Bernard Sent: February-24-13 5:09 PM To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: creating playlists and using the media library in Winamp 5.63 Good evening everyone: Is there anyone on the list, using Winamp version 5.63? If so, could you tell me how to create a playlist in this version of Winamp? When I open Winamp, I control tab to the playlist editor, and then press L.When I do this, a dialogue box pops up, asking me to insert and/or select a file. The only controls in this dialogue, are the combo edit box, the files of type drop-down menu, followed by an open button and a cancel button and finally, the look in drop-down menu. I shift-tabbed, into a list view, whichwas the folder where my files were, and navigated to the file I wanted toadd. After finding it, I tabbed until I got to the open button, and pressed enter on it. This caused the dialogue to close and I was placed back in theplaylist editor.However, when I arrowed up and down to see if my selected file was inserted, it did not appear to be there. The above steps I performed, apparently didnothing. Also, I read in an article I found online containing a list of Winamp shortcut keys, which says, that you can gain access to the medialibrary by pressing alt plus L. I tried this, but that doesn't do anythingeither. How do I access the media library? Thanks. Mike Rochester, NY. To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to: winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If 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 directly. Instead, please contact the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, orthe way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contactthe list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, orthe way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contactthe list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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