Hello One thing I can say is that the tab key sort of works under the mac. The thing about it is that it is not disabled, but that it is just not working with vo. This goes back to the issue of the broken cursor tracking in iTunes. The keyboard cursor is moving through the lists, its just that vo is not reading what is under it.
Justin On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > I thought I figured out a way to pick a particular artist from the > playlist browser, but when I went back and tried again, it didn't > work. The method I tried involved stopping interacting with the column > browser, typing a few letters, arrowing around a bit, and starting to > interact again. iTunes 9 seems really shaky; sometimes something > works, and sometimes it doesn't. > > Thanks to Google, I did figure out how to get albums to show as well > as artists in the new Column browser, the iTunes 9 successor to the > playlist browser. Once you turn on the browser with Command-B, go to > the View menu. There's a Column Browser submenu where you can check or > uncheck columns such as artist, album, and genre. You can also change > the location of the browser; it can be on the top or on the left of > the screen. Changing this setting appears to have no effect on > accessibility. > > Another area for serious concern is that there appears to be no way to > move between different sections of the iTunes window. Ironically, > navigation is better in Windows in this area; in Windows F6 takes you > between the Source list, the search box, and the track list. With > itunes 8, Tab served some of this function; at least it usually took > me to the Source list and search box. Tab sometimes does something > with iTunes 9, but often it has no effect at all. It's tedious and > time-consuming to have to VO-arrow through every control to get to > what you want. > > Finally, while access to the store is certainly better on the Mac than > in Windows, it leaves a lot to be desired. Has anyone figured out a > way to get around in a long list of songs and preview the ones they > want? I searched for the Essential Michael Jackson and got a table > which, if I VO-Right Arrow through it, shows one song after another, > with preview images, song titles, and buy buttons. However, if I try > to interact with the table so I can move up and down a column to see > quickly what the tracks are, it doesn't work. The table is reported as > containing only three rows, which is obviously ridiculous, and all I > see is the preview for the first track and the buy button for the > last. I've tried the regular VO interact command and also VO-Equals, > but neither works. Furthermore, pressing Enter on a Preview image > results in unpredictable behavior. sometimes I am asked if I want to > buy a track, and sometimes a different page entirely loads. > > I plan to write all this to accessibil...@apple.com, but I'd like > confirmation of the problems first. > > It's ironic that Apple improved the accessibility of the Mac and > iPhone but decreased it significantly in iTunes. I think the more > constructive comments they hear from the more people, the better. > > Best, > Anna > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
