Ok, I've found a few things that help with this. After rereading the
manual, I'm quite sure that those working with audio hijack pro
really don't understand our problem because in the manual it talks
about the different sections of the window and about all the
available sessions being listed in alphabetical order. Unless they
try this with vo and without looking at the screen, they aren't going
to understand why we would be having trouble finding our sessions.
1. When interacting with the table with all the ahp component cell
values, you can use vokeys-f3 and it will not only tive the ahp value
but the row you are on; for some reason this doesn't show when moving
with vo-keys in the table. Knowing the row numbers is helpful because
you can work around through the table and find out how many sessions
you actually have. I did this by working left past row 1 and then
seeing what the last row was by going one more left
. Be aware though that it's possible to have a blank row which will
still be numbered and that your list of sessions will probably also
include quick record and the recording bin.
2. Also when interacting with the ahp components table, you can use
vokeys-shift-w to see the ahp value you are on plus the window/
session title. Be aware that you'll get different results if you
aren'tinteracting with the table and also that when you use vokeys-
shift-w you will then not be interacting with the table once the info
is read; this means you have to re-interact and move left or right to
explore. Of course you can also the window title with vokeys-f2.
3. Knowing how many rows there are and exactly where you are, you can
undertake cleaning out your sessions and getting rid of unwanted
ones. When on an ahp cell value, you can hit enter and a dialog will
come up showing the title and asking if you want to rename it. On the
other hand, if you are on a cell value and hit the backspace-delete
key, a dialog will come up allowing you to delete that session. With
both dialogs you have the opportunity to cancel, so these are a good
way to go through your sessions and either delete unwanted ones or
rename them. I got rid of a whole bunch of "no application selected"
sessions. Also, it's possible to be on a cell value and hit enter or
backspace-delete and have nothing happen; if so, just work over to
the next one.
4. It also helps to know that the sessions are arranged in
alphabetical order. Once I had cleaned up my sessions, I went through
and identified each one and opened text edit and mae a list of the
sessions. Remember that when you start a new session it will be
inserted alphabetically so if you are going to keep that session
permanently you need to insert it in the right place in your list.
5. A note for those using flip4mac: if you use wmv player as your
application to hijack, it will work in that your audio will start.
but if you are launching quicktime, the hijack apparently stops when
quicktime is launched. If all you wanted to do is start audio that's
fine, but if you were planning to record or expecting the source to
be quit at the end of a period of time, it won't happen. You can go
into a quicktime session and start hijacking for quicktime so
hijacking will restart and then you can record but other than that,
you might be better off using VLC if you want something automatic to
happen. Or: I just experimented and apparently you can just hijack
quicktime Player in the first place instead of wmvplayer and if
you've selected a file or url this should work; I only just tried it
with .asx playlist file that went out to a radio station.
6. It appears to me that unfortunately we can do absolutely nothing
with effects since it involves a grid of some kind. In fact, what
strikes me about this application is that at first glance it seems
totally accessible but actually we as blind people using vo are
originally unaware of what we are NOT seeing. It kind of reminds me
of how I used to like some cartoons as a child and didn't understand
until later a lot about what was actually involved in the cartoons.
This doesn't mean AHP isn't still a really great application for us
to use: just an observation that sometimes what we think we "see" is
just the tip of the iceberg.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
