It's unfortunate that this site has so many HTML errors which makes
accessibility poor. Any basic validator will flag the missing alt text
on images, misspelled href and broken link constructs. Everybody fat
fingers stuff sometimes but that's why these error checkers exist and
not using them (or not fixing the errors they find) is just bad
practice. Here is the output from the w3c's validator showing 361 errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blindcooltech.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Deque makes a nice accessibility validator which you can scan a page for
free. It found 1238 errors:
http://worldspace.deque.com/wsservice/eval/reports/consolidate/report.jsp?siteid=10014&collPractices=ACCESSIBILITY;&compliance=W2_LEVEL_A&page=http://www.blindcooltech.com
Of course 328K of HTML for a home page is huge, which probably bogs down
any processing VO is doing to find headers to jump to or whatever. Would
be nice to have the page break the content into sections. Maybe by year,
or whatever.
CB
Esther wrote:
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
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