Hi Chris, I spoke with a man at Audible Corporate a few weeks ago and he told me that Audible will be changing to the Amazon platform in February. That is why they are not doing any changes now. He said they were aware of the needs of the visually impaired users and he thinks that many of those needs, including being able to read samples using Windows Explorer, will be solved. I hope he's right. Paulette
_____ From: Chris Tekell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:16 PM To: Rick Ely; [email protected] Subject: Re: Audible site navigation Thanks again Rick for going the extra mile to help me out here. I know it isn't a redesign issue. I just used the page today after regressing to IE 7, but the regression seemed to damage something, because I could no longer do a Windows update, so I was forced to reinstall version 8 since being able to update Windows is a wee bit more important than making my Audible experience more convenient. I am thinking that these blurbs are some sort of imbedded text, perhaps connected to an image on the page. What you get with them is basically the first four or so lines of the publisher's summary., and it cuts off at what seems like an arbitrary point, sometimes in the middle of a sentence indicating to me that there is a hard limit to the amount of text included. I've had some sighted members of my family look and they also do not see the text anywhere. I am beginning to wonder if it is what I guess you could call a ghost of a feature of the old site, something designed to pop up with a mouse-over that is part of a template for book entries that just never got removed but that hasn't been updated. To add to the mix, I temporarily installed WE on a sighted friend's computer that also has XP service pack 3 with IE 7 and was able to find the blurbs , though my friend did not notice anything popping up with the text WE was reading. This is just plain odd. Nobody at Audible email or phone has any idea of this feature, artifact or whatever, though all have promised to send queries on to the website folks. If it is an artifact of the past, or an unintentional feature, perhaps they can figure out how it works and make it an intentional feature.. If I can figure out how to go back to IE 7 without the errors I encountered today I am going to do so, I just find it too useful. But if I can't get back to 7, I guess I will just have to do things the old fashioned way. Thanks, Chris At 05:28 PM 1/6/2010, Rick Ely wrote: Chris, Pulled up ZoomText to do my best to look at the pages. Started with the Audible Best Sellers list, and then went to the NY Times list. Neither of these groups had any description beyond the release date and the length. Arbitrarily, I then selected "Fantasy Contemporary" as another kind of grouping. Since I rarely look at the screen when doing my Audible order, I was surprised that the first of the pages of this category had items arranged not as I had expected in a single column but rather in rows of \four items. Again, there were no descriptions, not even the release date or length. I am wondering if about the time you migrated to IE 8 there was some redesign of the Audible site. It seemed to me when the company was bought, there were some notable changes to the site. I know that for me the pages became more cumbersome to work through, but having no old pages to compare, I was not sure. Hope this helps and if there is anyone on the list with 20/20 vision, might you check the site and report what you find? Rick 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> 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. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2597 - Release Date: 01/06/10 19:35:00 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.
