Hello Andy, Don't despair! There's a solution.
The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator> It works even outside the UK. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jul 2013, at 12:05, ANDY COLLINS <a...@recreation.plus.com> wrote: > Hi all - > > New to the Mac, only had my MacBook Air for 3 weeks. I'm interested in the > possibility of using a different web browser, as I want to use > > www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer > > to listen to radio/TV programmes I miss, here in the UK. I'm able to find the > programme I want to listen too, but the play button is a graphic, and VO > can't see it. JAWS under Windows was ok with this, as the BBC was made aware > of the problem, and made it accessible, but they don't appear to have taken > Mac users in to consideration. I'll contact them about this, but in the > meantime, don't want to keep missing programmes. Of course, I could be wrong, > and maybe there is a way to have VO see the play button when in a graphic, > and I just don't know how to make it happen, so if anybody knows if VO can be > made to see these graphic buttons, I'd appreciate the knowledge - > > Andy > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopewell" <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Browsers For the Mack and Voiceover > withMountain Lion > > >> Hello, >> I find that the lightning browser works fine with VoiceOver and often allows >> me to access buttons and the like which Safari cannot find for whatever >> reason. I recommend that you give it a go. It is in the App store. >> >> Paul Hopewell >> >> On 8 Jul 2013, at 02:02, gaggor...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hello Listers: >>> >>> >>> >>> I heard that there are other options for browsers which are compatible with >>> Voiceover. Is this true? 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