Hi Rich,
You don't use the browser at all when you're in the iTunes Store and
you use the HTML area. Here's a sample search:
1. Open iTunes
2. Command-Shift-H (shortcut to open the iTunes Store at its Home Page)
3. VO-right until you are in the HTML area for the store, then
interact (VO-Shift-Down Arrow)
4. VO-U to bring up the links chooser menu
5. Press "P O W" to find the item for the "Power Search" menu and
select it (with VO-space or by pressing return) to go to the Power
Search link on the iTunes Home page.
6. VO-Space to press the Power Search link
7. VO-right to the popup button for "All Results" and change it (VO-
Space and down arrow) to "Music"
8. VO-right past "Artist" to its text entry field and type in "David
Grisman". You can type in any other information --- Composer, Song,
Album. or select the Genre popup button (for someone who works in very
different genres -- like Wynton Marsalis). You can also check the box
for "Search iTunes Plus" if you specifically want DRM-free, higher bit-
rate music. Press return (or VO-right to the "Search" button and
press it).
9. Your search results will appear both in the HTML region and in the
Songs table. For full albums you want to look only in the HTML region.
10. VO-right (or use links chooser menu) to "Albums". The HTML window
will display information about the most popular few albums, for a list
of ALL albums matching your search, VO-right to the "See all" link and
press it (VO-space).
11. Summary information will be displayed for all albums, including
price and a "Buy Album" button. However, if you press the link (VO-
space) to go to the HTML page for the album, you will find a lot more
information available. The HTML page will have a "Buy Album" button,
but there will also be a description of the album, ratings and reviews
from people who have purchased the album, links to other albums people
who liked this one have purchased, lists of the most popular songs,
etc. The Songs Table corresponding to the HTML page will list the
inidividual songs, which you can preview or separately purchase.
Hope this helps.
Some other tips. I browse the iTunes Store in DOM mode and turn off
mouse cursor tracking when I read the Songs table in the iTunes Store.
You can find more/other links about the artist in the HTML area.
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Rich Caloggero wrote:
I must be stupid or something...
Do I use the browser (HTML area) to purchase by album? When I search
on an
artist, say David Grisman, I get hundreds of individual entries
corresponding to individual songs. They are sorted in no order I can
descern. Each has a price of 99 cents. If I choose "grouping" from
the
view options dialog, I get yet another column in the list entitled
grouping
which always shows blank. I don't get it...
When I press command+b, I get several extra entries in the tab
order, all of
which announce themselves as "unknown" when I tab to them. VoiceOver
doesn't
know how to do anything with any of them; each time I press vo
+arrows or
vo+space, I get a beep and nothing happens.
What am I missing? How do I choose a category? How do I get a whole
album to
show up with corresponding price to click?
Sorry for the stupid questions, but this is not in any way intuitive
in my
opinion.
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes - how to purchase an album?
ou can purchase whole albums. The name of the albu the price shows
up in
the list and ou just click the price.
command-b works fine here but you have to select your browse category.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:44 PM
Subject: iTunes - how to purchase an album?
Is there a way to purchase an entire album conveniently, or at the
very
least, to sort the list of songs you get when searching on artist
name so
all songs on a particular album are arranged in adjacent rows?
A relabed question: has anyone gotten browse mode to work (command+b);
VoiceOver just keeps saying "unknown" when it comes upon what I
suspect are
the browse controls.
Thanx for any advice.
-- Rich
