Hi Ray! Right on! The Sense products are left out because of all of this as well! Why can't websites allow for an Mp3 stream or Windows media stream in addition to what is available since most PCS have Windows Media Player!
Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <[email protected]> To: "James Aldrich" <[email protected]> Cc: "jesse" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:14 PM Subject: Re: the flash streams again The Flash player is being used all over now, not to mention the dratted Quicktime Player.. Trouble with these often boils down to them being embedded within the web page, rather than implemented on the site as a stand alone player. Unless the website designers have made an extra effort - as the BBC has done here with it's IPlayer - we get left out of the convenience of navigating these streams and adjusting volume. Can I ask, and not trying to be unduly controversial here, but isn't this just the sort of thing the American organisations of blind people usually go to court about? Failing that, is their nothing GW and other screen reader manufacturers can do to address this? Surely accessible streaming for us is as crucial, if not more so, than most others. Ray. James Aldrich wrote: Hello all! I couldn't agree more! I'm so pleased Jesse brought this up! I could start and stop the flash player with my MSI Wind. That's all I could do! Since I use USB headphones, I simply turn down the sound card which is fine with me! My Asus PC is another matter! Quite often I can get something to play! If it does, all fine and good. If I find a button which could start or stop play or take me to another song, I hit enter and I get "settings" or "about flash player ten". How can I get this not to happen and have the buttons at least function? I of course don't care much about Flash Player but it is a pain when i can't get it to function as I'd like it to function. Also, web developers don't label their buttons! On http://www.theradio.com when using Window Eyes, the buttons disappear altogether! If I use System Access, turn that off to turn on Window Eyes, the buttons work and they function under Window Eyes then. If I go in cold with Window Eyes on the site i mentioned, I don't see the buttons! Please feel free to write me privately if you have an idea on how I can fix flash player in my Asus PC other than installing it to uninstall it to install it again! Thanks so much! Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: jesse To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:37 PM Subject: the flash streams again Hi guys. Although not entirely a Window-Eyes question, maybe there are some ways to navigate pages like this. [email protected] Try using the volume slider on a page like that. It reads volume but there doesn't seem to be any one specific way to route the cursor and use the arrow and-or left mous clicks to raise and-or lower the volume, or is there? Then, there's this bear of a stream. http://www.flyfmkingston.com/listen-online.htm Similar set-up but, from what a sited person said, when on the volume button, all hitting enter does is mutes it, nothing more. Luckily, there are some newcap streams which utilizes winamp and makes the whole process easier. http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/ckixfm.pls Oh to be able to have that same sort of control for CIHT and CFLY. Is that to much to ask or are there certain keystrokes that can make these flash pages workable without some sited person dragging the mouse over top of the volume slider? Jesse If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
