Jim, I was doing some computer housekeeping and found a post from another list that might help with Pandora.
Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger R. Cusson" <r...@ime.net> "BlindTech Mailing List" <blindt...@blindtech-list.info> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:38 PM Subject: (BlindTech) There Is HOPE For Pandora Greetings Folks, With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful Pandora third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for Pandora, we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners out there. For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at: http://www.pandora.com is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up various radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual artist and or specific genres. The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to account options and the music player. Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually finds music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not feel like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend Hap Holly, is at spinning a good yarn. Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party application layer gateway for the popular social networking site, Twitter, has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora. Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible interface to the Pandora site... It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as he can try to write, before his fingers fall off. The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora. Once you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials, no speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles. Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or close to the same musical style or genre/sound. It is unbelievable!!! Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience completely blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site. A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on the Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and all account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user would experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway, H O P E. The H O P E program can be found at: http://q-continuum.net/hope/ I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him questions and of course purchase the program to further the development of HOPE. Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program was well worth waiting for. Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE brings to Pandora.com If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited listening experience, please e-mail: supp...@pandora.com The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers, unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are in fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time... Respectfully submitted, Roger R. Cusson Computer Access Specialist Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine (207) 353-5007 Skype Contact: rcusson A quote to live by: Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly!" ----------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim rawls" <jazzpi...@ca.rr.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 11:40 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] making Pandora accessible. I understand that there are scripts out there to make Pandora accessible. If that is true, where do you get them, and how do you install them, and most of all, do they work? I am running windows 7, jaws 12, latest update on a 64 bit machine. Jim For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/