Hi, the only thing that might work, is
Get a usb external card that has a speaker and direct you jaws , or
windoweyes output to that card..
That's what I did, exept I have a usb mike and use the laptop's speaker for
my w e output.
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From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: RE: SoundCloud
An external speech synthesizer would eliminate this problem. Also, scanning
the web pate before pressing play would reveal the controls, if any, that
are accessible.
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Walter
Ramage
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 2:23 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: SoundCloud
Hi. I was asked to check this out from a user point of view and didn't
find it accessible. I was asked on behalf of a charity project to play
around with pre-uploaded music files and didn't find the free version much
use. This guy wanted to upload audio files for the public to play such as
info regarding government benefits etc. I'll paste my response to that guy
below so you will see my experience. Walter.
Hi Glyn. Firstly my apology; I was going through my deleted items, clearing
them out when I came across your email. somehow it went straight to my
deleted items rather than my in box. I would have replied sooner if I had
seen it so sorry about that.
OK. This is my initial input regarding the site. The music is displayed
clearly and the play button is easy to find and activate but that is where
the simplicity ends and the problems begin. Once you have activated the
play button and the music plays, there is no way you can use the other play
controls because the music drowns out the screen reader and as there is no
keyboard short cut keys trying to use them is a hiding to nothing. You have
to wait for a quiet passage in the audio before trying frantically to find a
control but the quiet period never lasts long enough for you to find what
you want. This is the free version and I noticed there is a Pro service but
I guess you have to pay for that but there is no way of telling if the pro
version is any more accessible than the free version and in any case, the
people who would want to play any files you upload would use the free
service. As I've said I've only looked at the site briefly and when I
discovered getting to the play controls during playback was problematic I
didn't go any further. As with WMP, if there were short cut keys such as
Control+s for stop or Control+p for pause or control+m for mute or+control
+r for rewind then it would be a good service to utilise. It might be you
can map the keyboard and create these shortcuts but I'd need to look further
into the site and I'll do that as soon as I can. Of course this initial
summery is from a blind point of view. People with hearing loss or other
disabilities but who have site, or even some partially sighted folk would be
able to use it. Unfortunately though if you have no usable sight and in the
absence of play controls accessibility then it wouldn't be of any use to
them. Nonetheless you have to consider the majority of people who would use
the facility and a minority group shouldn't be allowed to veto something
because they are disenfranchised; you can please all of the people some of
the time and some of the people all of the time but you will never please
all of the people all of the time. This doesn't mean that solutions aren't
sought to resolve the disenfranchisement and that might be by linking to
another service. I will ask on the tech lists I'm on to see what can be
done and will get back to you. Walter.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Portillo
Sent: 16 October 2015 05:09
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: SoundCloud
Hello there,
Has anyone used a program called SoundCloud with JAWS, and if so, how easy
is it to use? I'm needing to start using it and am just beginning to see
how it works. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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