Hi Will, You wrote:
> > ester i mean on the audible.com site how does one get favourites to > play > The answer is -- painfully! You'll need to use mouse keys. The lioncourt.com link is working now, so try going to that page for instructions: http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/07/19/play-samples-on-audiblecom-with-voiceover/ The place to click is about 49 or 50 key presses to the right of the "Sample" button on my MacBook. You can turn on mouse keys and move to the right with the "o" key and hit the spot exactly, or you can do what Josh does, and move using the trackpad or mouse and try to move in a straight horizontal line, reading off the "x" pixel position with VO-F5 (twice) and incrementing it by 45-50 units. I enable mouse keys by setting up the Universal Access menu's Mouse & Keyboard tab preferences to turn mouse keys on or off by pressing the option key 5 times in succession. There's a check box for this; go to System Preferences and use the Universal Access menu. Read the instructions that Josh gives, but move to the right (not left) and realize that the "Listen" item has been replaced by "Sample". Ignore my detailed comment unless you want to read about how to activate mouse keys -- that detailed setup method worked for the old page. Also, I've given you the "sweet spot" to aim for, so if you're off by 5 or 6 screen pixels you should still be able to press the to play/stop the sample. Cheers, Esther P.S. The Audible Kids site has a player arrangement that is more accessible and opens as a separate window, more like the UK site. But it doesn't have most of the content. > On 18 May 2009, at 19:00, Esther wrote: > >> >> Hi Will, >> >> Most of the links on the UK Audible site seem to work. If you're >> browsing the BBC Audiozone, none of the summary page links appear to >> work, but if you select the link for an individual book the "Click to >> play sample" on that page works correctly. Note that both the >> summary >> page for the BBC Audiozone and the individual book pages there have a >> "return to Audible" link, so I suspect that Audible's design is not >> the problem. If the site is busy, you might want to try reloading a >> page (with Command-R), and then checking the links. >> >> Incidentally, the Audible.com U.S. site uses flash to play the >> samples. The workaround for the U.S. site that was posted on the >> lioncourt.com site last year has to be modified with Audible's recent >> web page redesign; the "Listen" text item has been replaced with >> "Sample", and you have to do a mouse keys search by moving to the >> right of "Sample" (instead of searching to the left of "Listen"). >> The >> link address that Josh originally posted to the list doesn't work >> now. Actually, I can't get to the database for the lioncourt.com >> page >> at all at this time. I think the link should now be: >> >> http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/07/19/play-samples-on-audiblecom-with-voiceover/ >> >> If that does not work, look for Mac-cessibility tip #20. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On May 18, 2009, at 4:41 AM, william lomas wrote: >> >>> >>> hi how can I play a sample of a book on audible.com? >>> the UK audible site which I buy from says click here for sample but >>> on >>> the dot com site nothing happens >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
