Thanx much for these instructions - extremely helpful. I was under the assumption that everything was done via the browse list and wasn't bothering with the HTML area at all.
I wish there were easier ways to navigate the embedded HTML though, as in Safari. However, as soon as you press tab (I forget sometimes and just assume I can tab from link to link as in a normal web browser), you get tossed out to the next tabbable thing in the main iTunes window. I've often wished for some sort of two-level navigation like control tab among panes and then tab / shift+tab within each one. This would help in many apps like word processors or we browsers where you want to tab among open documents or between a document area and a toolbox, etc. Any other thoughts / opinions? -- Cheers, Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:36 PM Subject: Re: iTunes - how to purchase an album? 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 > > > > > > >
