Sieghard, Unfortunately, I tried a restore and iTunes wasn't happy.
I then had to uninstall iTunes, along with the other associated Apple programs like Apple Software, Bonjour, and a couple others. Apple has a prescribed order to uninstall that stuff. After that, I could re-install iTunes earlier version. Yes, this is an unfortunate instance; and I usually don't update stuff right away. Regretfully, live and learn. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 9:25 PM Subject: iTunes 12.1.0.71 - initial findings 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 accessibil...@apple.com 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 -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
