Hello,

 

OK, I just played around a bit with this latest iTunes release. I am using
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit and the latest Jaws 16 update.

As I said before, I can still use Control+F to go to the search library
field, tabbing from there I get the same announcement of the radio buttons
like Music, Movies etc. and this section still ends with "More". 

 

After "More" I get the usual 3 radio buttons, "My Music", "Playlists" and
"iTunes Store". Then I get to a button which still is correctly identified
as "Songs" and that is where it needs to be in order for the column browser
to work. I can activate the button and tab into the list of items, however,
all of them (Songs, Albums, Artists, Composers and Genres) are only read by
Jaws as "button".

If I put it on Songs, the first button in that list, I can tab and I get 4
items which are only announced as "Button" as well. I realized that the
first 3 are my columns (Genre, Artist and Album) and the fourth is the song
list view. I can arrow down in these as before and items are filtered, but
of course Jaws reads only "Button" anywhere you are and it's very bag.

 

All I can suggest at this point is to once again flood
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  with emails
letting them know how useless iTunes currently is. It may also be of use to
inform the maker of whichever screenreader you use as this may be a fix
required on their side. I do, however, find it unfortunate that something
like this isn't tested by Apple so it could be caught before a public
release and either it could be fixed or an appropriate warning could be
displayed advising screenreader users that there are problems in the new
update and to stick with the previous one for the time being.

 

I haven't decided yet whether I want to downgrade, a Windows Restore would
of course be the simplest solution, but I also installed a new printer since
the update and while reinstalling it wouldn't be such a big deal, I might
just wait to see if Apple will release an update to fix this or if Freedom
Scientific can come up with a solution so Jaws once again reads all it
should read. I fortunately don't really use iTunes on a daily bases so
waiting for another update might be OK for me.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

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