Hi,
As someone who's just gotten interested in Itunes do I understand it that if
you want to download podcasts only and have no intention of buying tunes
from the Itunes store which I certainly never will, you have to set up an
Itunes account and give Apple your credit card details?
Does this also apply if you just want to load your own cd's in to the
library?
Sorry if I'm missing something here.
As for that chap being so obviously rude I only wish he'd said what he did
to me.
Kind regards
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Gilland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: iTunes strange happening
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.
!
----- 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.
