Here's my take on ITunes and Ipods. First there's obviously ways to
work with Itunes and I do really need to spend some more time with
it, but for those using Windows, they seem to be having a little
easier time working with Itunes and getting music to the Ipod
Shuffle. Now Apple could stand to gain more Ipod sales by making the
Ipod have a spoken interface. First because then the blind community
would have a fully accessible and commercially available player. Face
it, Rockbox is very cool, I use it on my Archose, but unless you are
interested in getting into the whole deal of flashing your Ipod which
of course has its risks I imagine not to mention the warranty, well
not all want to get into doing this. Ok the point is a spoken
interface would be good for those who like to search out tunes while
driving etc. It makes sense and I'm sure if the good folks at Rockbox
can put something like it together, then Apple could certianly do
something for the Ipod; so could other vendors. I know all the
arguements to this, but I wonder how many in the blind community have
actually approached Apple and tossed the idea at them. I don't know,
but I'd be curious.
Scott
On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
It would be cool if they made it so that a blind person could speed
scroll through a list of songs, albums, artists etc. They could
make it so that the screen reader stops trying to read the specific
names of the songs, and instead, reads the first letters. All that
stuff is put in alfabetical order. If I knew that the title that I
was searching for started with m, and I was in the A section at the
top of the list, I could start speed scrolling, and the software
would say "a" "b" "c" "d" until it reached M. I could then start
listening to the titles one by one and be a lot closer to the item.
