Greetings Folks,
With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful
Pandora
third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for
Pandora,
we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners
out there.
For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at:
http://www.pandora.com
is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up
various
radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual
artist and or specific genres.
The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with
screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash
technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to
account options and the music player.
Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually
finds
music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not
feel
like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend
Hap
Holly, is at spinning a good yarn.
Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party
application layer gateway for the popular social networking site,
Twitter,
has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora.
Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the
Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible
interface to the Pandora site...
It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as
he
can try to write, before his fingers fall off.
The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora.
Once
you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will
never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials,
no
speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles.
Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or
close to the same musical style or genre/sound.
It is unbelievable!!!
Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience
completely
blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site.
A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on
the
Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and
all
account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user
would
experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway,
H O
P E.
The H O P E program can be found at:
http://q-continuum.net/hope/
I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him
questions and of course purchase the program to further the development
of
HOPE.
Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program
was
well worth waiting for.
Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE
brings
to Pandora.com
If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have
questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited
listening
experience, please e-mail:
supp...@pandora.com
The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers,
unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are
in
fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time...
Respectfully submitted,
Roger R. Cusson
Computer Access Specialist
Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine
(207) 353-5007
Skype Contact: rcusson
A quote to live by:
Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly!"
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