Brilliant! That has solved my problem. As you rightly point out, one must first interact with the link using vo shift plus down arrow. Then using vo shift M brings up the context menu in which the option to download the target is located. You have no doubt saved me a heart attack or at least pulling out all my remaining hair by your excellent suggestion. I have been trying to solve this problem for several weeks, and would like to thank all, but in particular you, for helping me find a resolution. All the best from a very wet and cold Ireland. ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Downloading MP3, thank you
Hello Martin, There are actually two issues you are experiencing in downloading MP3 files, and one is specific to the design of the Blind Cool Tech web pages: you first have to interact (VO+Shift+Down Arrow) with the link entry before you can use either of the suggestions that were made (e.g. bring up the context menu with VO+Shift+M and find the option to download the linked item or to save it as a file, or use the keyboard shortcut of Option+Enter to force downloading of the file). I usually access the Blind Cool Tech RSS feed at: http://www.blindcooltech.com/bct.xml instead of using the main web page for this reason, and also because the feed page is much faster to load as well as not having the links embedded in elements so that you first have to interact to access them. However, only the 40 latest episodes are listed on the feed site, so you may need to go to the main BCT site for earlier episodes. You can also subscribe to the Blind Cool Tech podcasts in iTunes by navigating to the "Advanced" menu on the iTunes menu bar (VO+Shift+M then press "A"), arrowing down to "Subscribe to Podcast…", pressing Enter, and then typing or pasting in the feed address into the dialogue window that comes up, and press (VO-Space) the "OK" button. The podcasts will show up in iTunes under the "Podcasts" playlists. You'll need to select this in the sources table of iTunes (after interacting), then navigate to the Songs table, interact, and expand the list of podcasts with VO-Shift-Backslash. Then you can start any episode playing by pressing enter on the highlighted episode and pressing the space bar to pause/resume play. HTH. Subscribing to a podcast is not usually so involved; they still haven't fixed the bug in the Blind Cool Tech episodes listed at the iTunes feed that cropped up a couple of years ago. You might just be able to use the "Subscribe" button at the iTunes Store, but the way I've outlined will work for sure. Cheers, Esther On 30 Mar 2010, at 00:46, Scott Howell wrote: One final suggestion. You can always use VO-command-f5 to bring the mouse focus to that link, hold control and then click the physical mouse. That will bring up the context menu. On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:33 AM, M BROWN wrote: Thank all those who responded to my query about downloading MP3 files. However, none of the suggestions have worked. I have tried holding down the shift/control/option keys while pressing the letter M. This does bring up a menu, but within that menu there is nothing about saving target or anything similar. I have also held down the option key and pressed enter while on the link for the file I want to download. This merely downloads a html document relating to the archive page of the Blind Cool Tec site. Any further suggestions would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
