If any of you cruis the MP3 newsgroups and have seen the ads for the
Juke-it-up MP3 player that uses Winamp, etc., don't bother.  It's a
nice idea, but totally unuseable by JFW users.  The tree view for
navigating to a directory where your MP3 files are stored is not much
of a problem, but none of the buttons on the screen have text labels,
they're invisible to to the JAWS cursor (except for the help button)
and there are no tool tips except for one button which is how I
figured out how to change directories in the first place.

Because this software was written by a fellow hobbyist, not a company,
there's little, if any, hope of getting its accessibility problems
fixed, but you are welcome to tinker with it.  I deleted the messages
about it and did not bookmark the page, so I don't have the URL, but
if you're an MP3 hound, you won't go far without encountering the
advertisement, you can pick up the thing and try it yourself, maybe
you'll have better luck than I did.

P.P.S.:  If you do find it and install it, you'll get a copy error on
a DLL called Shdocvw.dll in the Windows system directory.  This error
can be safely ignored if you already have a copy of this file, which
you most likely do because I think either JFW or Internet Explorer
uses it.  The date on my file was in '97, the date on the file in the
Juke-it-up distribution was in '95.

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