Just found out about a third way. Friend of a friend works in Apple's
accessibility team who said you can just do Command-Shift-B to buy the
track which is currently highlighted or Control-Shift-B if you're on
Windows. I scoured the internet, the iTunes help and all the pull-down
menus and this command is mentioned nowhere. Nice to see that there is a
simple key combo to do this but they could have made it more
discoverable. Might as well have not implemented it.
CB
Chris Blouch wrote:
To summarize, there are at least ways, VO-Shift-Space and VO-Shift-M
with context menu navigation. Both work, but somebody just exploring
is not going to discover these easily. Lack of discoverability in many
case equals lack of usability and capability. I'm not clear why the
buy button itself, while visible, is not announced to at least give a
hint. It feels like both VO buy solutions are 'mouse hacks' to
simulate what a visual mouse user would do. At least it's possible, if
not obvious, how to buy a track.
CB
Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Hi Chris,
Pressing VO-Shift-M brings up the context menu while on the Songs
table, which includes the option "Buy or Get the currently selected
track in the Songs Table." You don't necessarily have to use the
mouse clicks. I've used the context menu several times now and it
works fine.
Josh de Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt
"The rich declare themselves poor,
"And most of us are not sure,
"If we have too much,
"But we'll take our chances,
"'cause God stopped keeping score."
Praying for Time--George Michael
On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Still seems like the actual buy process is a little weird. I go to
the iTunes store, the search on Apologetix. Then I go to the Songs
Table and interact with that. Going to the first row I can space to
preview Boulevard of Both Extremes. That all works fine. I then
VO-right a couple times to the price column. At no point does it
announce the Buy Song button which is next to the price. If interact
with that cell in the table all it does is tell me there are five
characters which are $0.99. If I do VO-I for item chooser I just get
a long list of $0.99 text over and over. If I VO-A I still only get
$0.99.
So if I didn't have existing knowledge of the buy song button next
to the price, how would I even know to mess with this? If I VO-M and
go to the Store menu there is no Buy option there either. I also
thought that hitting VO-Space would perform the default action,
which would be to buy the track since that's what my VO cursor was
on. The only way I could activate the buy button was VO-Shift-Space
to simulate a mouse click.
Is it really this convoluted? Silent buy buttons only accessible via
mouse clicks?
CB
Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
You can find out the details at the link below, and download the
update from Software Update.
http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/10/02/itunes-801-released-with-accessibility-enhancements/
Josh de Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt
"Beauty was a savage garden, so why should it wound him that the
most despairing music is full of beauty?"
The Vampire Lestat--Anne Rice
