I might get my daughter to look at the site late tonight. I may be able to
magnify it enough to figure it out. I think you must select a stream format
before activating the "LISTEN NOW" button. These sites really bug me! The
developers obviously spent a lot of effort to support so many podcast and
streaming formats. There goal is to reach as many people as possible!
Unfortunately, they totally neglected working with assistive technology, and
thus a large community!
I did email them with nice, constructive suggestions of where the
accessibility issues are and lead them in the right direction. mostly, the
developers need to know there is an issue with accessibility of their site.
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lino and Louie" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:07 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Radio stations that use annoying Flash
Yeah Don. I just visited that site and I like you use System Access and I
couldn't get the listen now button. I keep banging my head up against a
wall
when I encounter streams that use Flash. I can't ever CTRL the volume.
Certain streams has the slider, but using the vitural mouse, I can only
turn
a particular stream to 48 percent.
Lino Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Is this website accessible?
Hi Mark,
This site seems very difficult,. I had no problems subscribing to their
podcasts. They support a wide variety of readers. They also seem to
provide a variety of live and archived streams, including MP3 and
uncompressed. I was not able to get any of these streams to start.
Apparently there are icons inside the Flash object for the different
formats. Unfortunately, JAWS does not seem to be able to position the
JAWS
cursor within the Flash object. I could not find a "play" button. The
closest thing I could find was a "LISTEN NOW" Flash button, which did
nothing. Using system Access did no better.
If you want to look through the archives, Internet Explorer 7 does not
work
well with the combo boxes to select program, host or time. Firefox 3.5.1
handled these controls normally. I still had the same problems playing
the
archive I selected that I had with the live stream.
I would contact them to let them know that you are unable to select a
format and start the stream. They seem to know about streaming, but I
don't think their Flash objects have accessibility enabled. They need to
modify their Flash objects. At least accessibility code needs to be
enabled
/ added to these critical controls to start the stream.
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Is this website accessible?
Hi
Recently I tried to play music from a public radio website. Every
time
I click the play button nothing happens. I am using the latest version of
Jaws and Vista. I was wondering if people could check out the following
link and tell me how to access this site please?
http://kexp.org/streamarchive/streamarchive.asp
Thank you.
God bless,
Mark
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