Re: having trouble with softcon dvd and playing dvds

[Travis Siegel]

Softcon Dvd Player attempts to fill the gaps left by apple's dvd  
player.  It allows you to either use the menus like apple's dvd  
player does if you can do that, or for those of us who can't see the  
screen, it gives us alternative navigation techniques.  You can not  
only move between selections (great for dvds that have tv shows on  
them, since they usually have more than one episode on them) but it  
also gives us access to the extras on the disk, such as deleted  
scenes, behind the scenes interviews, and the like.  There's also the  
capability of choosing the audio track you want to listen to  
(english, french, dvs, and so on) This is something we cannot do  
using the apple dvd player.
So, the short answer to your question is yes, it is an accessible  
player, but the long answer is a bit more involved.
All the functions I added work for us, and any sighted person who  
learns the keystrokes, but since I cannot (yet) add buttons and such  
to the player, most of the additional functionality is hidden from  
the casual viewer who does not read the documentation, since there  
are not buttons to perform the actions.
One thing you may not like though, is that the title of the disc is  
not displayed anywhere at the moment.  I'm going to put the title of  
the disc as the title of the viewing window, so that we can tell  
which disc it is, but I've not had time to do this just yet.
And, since you missed it, softcon dvd player is available at:
http://www.softcon.com/mac
Hope this helps.
On Jun 10, 2006, at 2:10 AM, william lomas wrote:

hi

is softcan DVD an accessible DVD player then i assume?
regards, will