Thanks, Esther. I'll try that. Best, Anna
On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Anna, > > What I usually do myself is VO-Right arrow from "Songs" to the "See > all" link and VO-Space. This loads the table of songs onto a new > page, but takes a while to respond, so if you're looking for a track > that is likely to be matched within the first dozen or so item listed, > you're better off just doing VO-Right arrow directly into the table. > When you're on the newly loaded HTML page for the songs list, you'll > notice that you can VO-Right arrow to a link for "Next page" if the > results are really long. Also, you can sort on the column headers, but > only if you are on the fields for the headers of each column for the > table and physically click on the headers with VO-Shift-Space after > routing your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor (VO-Command-F5). > Clicking again reverses sort order. I don't recommend doing this > unless you just like to experiment, since it takes a while to reload, > and I'm not sure that it adds much to the current search. You can't > sort with a context menu or through the VoiceOver Commands menu (VO-H > twice). > > I can't VO-Down arrow through any of the columns (in Leopard), for > instance, to look for a specific Artist when I've done a song search, > so I think you'd be advised to put in as many fields as you want to > select by when you use the Power Search. > > What may have happened for the first 22 tracks you could preview is > that you were in a scrolling table that didn't update. That may be > why we're forced to VO-Right arrow through the individual tracks. You > could try commands like VO-End and VO-Home (to go to end and > beginning, including scrolling). I think its more robust to press > "See all" and have the songs table load by itself on to a new page > instead of working with results embedded in the HTML area containing > Album results, etc. in terms of working with VoiceOver but it is less > responsive in terms of having to wait for the new page to load. > > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > >> >> Hi Esther, >> >> Thanks for the directions for finding and previewing tracks. They >> work >> well for the most part. I was going through a song list of about 50 >> songs, and had no trouble previewing the first 22 or so. Then I came >> to a row where the mouse cursor would not route to the vO cursor; it >> would only go to the Apple menu. Still, this is way better than no >> access at all. >> >> Best, >> Anna >> >> >> >> On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Esther wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello James, >>> >>> The songs table is now inside the HTML area of iTunes. What I do >>> now >>> is, once I am in the HTML area, I bring up item chooser menu (VO-I) >>> and look for "heading level 2 Songs". Then I VO-Right arrow to the >>> name, time, artist, etc. fields. If you do not have your Mouse >>> cursor >>> following your VoiceOver cursor you will have to route it with VO- >>> Command-F5 when you want to preview the song and click with VO- >>> Shift- >>> Space. I also use this method of clicking on the "Buy" field to >>> make >>> my purchase. >>> >>> HTH. Maybe someone else can make suggestions (I'm not upgraded to >>> Snow Leopard yet, but am using iTunes 9). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> On Sep 13, 2009, James Fettgather wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi to the list. >>>> >>>> I am really confused about how to purchase a song using Itunes 9. >>>> I type a title into the search field, no problem. >>>> >>>> Hit Enter. >>>> >>>> I can find the HTML portion of the Itunes store without difficulty >>>> containing all of the albums with the particular song, but the >>>> songs >>>> table listing individual songs is simply missing, pressing VO right >>>> arrow simply is showing no song table at all. >>>> >>>> Any hints about where the heck is the songs table would sure be >>>> helpful, and thanks a lot. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
