Jude,
You're not alone my friend.
My mom's over paranoid and won't accept the terms for me. She thinks that
just because it asks for a credit card number to put on file, that means I'm
autojatically gonna be charged. I tolder no, that is not the case, but she
won't listen. So, I dono what to do. I don't have Leopard, so I can't use
back to my Mac, and have someone remote into the system. Mike's gf and I
tried IChat, but my version in Tiger of IChat doesn't seem to wanna let me
add me.com addresses, but instead only .mac addresses. and AIM through
IChat wouldn't let us do it. Apple due to quote: legality reasons won't
remote in and help me. When I spoke with an ITunes product store
specialist, they said in there exact words: The law, is the law, is the
law. I asked them, when that part would be made accessible, and they said,
well, that's so minor of a thing, just get over it, and get someone sighted,
we could frankly care less to fix that part. the guy was extremely rude.
When I threatened him with the ADA and told him, that by them not wishing to
provide access, was their right, but when they sit here and say since I am
blind, there is no reason for us people to use the ITunes store when there
are many other legal music download services that would work... I told him,
o, so, you're refusing purposefully to help the blind with things like
this... He then very directly, said that is correct. Why should we? It's
not worth us fixing it. We got bigger accessibility things to deal with to
make you all happy. It's almost like he felt that we're doing them a burden
by making things so accessible. Boy did that make me lose a lotta respect
in them. I thought they were honestly doing it cause they wanted to. Not
because they had to. In any rate, I took this complaint to my local nfb
chapter, and I also took it to my local ACB chapter. Both of which are
looking into this to see what we can do to fight this, and get that stupid
window to be vo ready, as both organization chapters down here agree if they
could make everything else work, then, this is stupid. why couldn't they
make this work. I even told them, when he said, well the way that window
works if we made it work, voice over would jump to it, but then vo up down
left or right would then skip over all the content inside of it. I'm like,
don't give me that BS. Have you never heard of interacting with an item?
He's like, ok, so you bought a program that speaks to you what is on the
screen? I'm like, no, I'm using voice over. He's like, o, you talk to your
computer. OK, well, you need to go to the company who makes voice over so
they can help you more. I'm like, you! idiot? You all! make voice over.
It's built into your opporating system. This is why all you Apple certified
technitions know your products. And why, you all clame to be committed to
accessibility, thus, know your accessibility products, or, have folks there
who for once, do. O, I was piss'ss'ssed!
I dono, yall got any comments on this?
Chris.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:25 PM
Subject: iTunes strange happening
I went to listen to an episode of the screenless switchers podcast earlier
tonight. First time I had tried that with this version of Itunes. I got
asked for credentials so gave the iTunes store my .mac address and password
and was told those credentials had never been seen by the store before;
then I was given the option to review my credentials or cancel so I hit the
review button because I didn't want to cancel the listening session.
Strangely, my credentials and account did not appear on the screen again,
but the screenless switchers podcast began to play. I'm pretty certain I
still don't have an iTunes account nor will I have one until someone gets
through that captta for me but this was an interesting thing to have had
happen.
