you running version 8.1.2? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC-Audio" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:12 PM Subject: Easy CD/DA Extractor accessibility
> Just recently, I purchased the newest version of this program when I saw its > release announced on another list. The reason I went for it was because I'd > downloaded and tried out the previous version, just weeks earlier, and found > its controls, settings and menus almost entirely accessible to my Jaws 6.0 > under XP Home, with few exceptions. Maybe, now that I think of it, I just > wwasn't aware of some features that Jaws didn't speak, but managed to use > its basic functions anyway, without knowing I could actually tweak important > settings. > > > But now that I've installed the new version, which I'd hoped would be at > least as smooth-functioning with Jaws as its predecessor, I'm disappointed. > Although the menus are still as accessible as before, the tabs and settings > in the modules for burning, ripping and, I suppose, file conversion (though > I didn't explore that function) are full of gaps and things that Jaws can't > pick up just moving about with the Tab key and arrow keys, as before. Some > items can be tricked into speaking, if you know they're there in the first > place, by using the Say Line command, but others just are invisible or > completely impossible to make sense of. I hear "blank" where I'm sure > there's a setting or control, "true" as an alternative to check about > something, I have no idea what, and the browser views and list views > involved in finding files and listing them to burn, for instance, are not > possible for me to figure out. I just wind up tabbing around and around. > Once, I managed to create a CD from files on my hard drive, but I was so > confused that I don't remember how I managed it. > > Has anyone else had trouble with this new version? I've contacted the > developer, who wrote back to me very quickly, though he seemed surprised and > a little taken aback at my inquiry, and at first just asked if there were > some Jaws patches that could be used, or something like that. I explained > that when possible, a program interface was coded in a way that let Jaws > identify its features, and when that failed, there were volunteer script > writers. But that this was an informal arrangement, so that you can't just > order something to compensate for a poorly labeled interface. > > I offered to help find him resources and links for learning more about > coding or whatever you call it to interface with Jaws, but he hasn't written > back again, yet. I'm hoping to maintain a respectful relationship, because > I'd like to support his work, and the program seems nicely designed, very > clean, from what I experienced with the earlier version. > > Anyone else have experience with this new version of the program? I got the > impressing that it's popular with screen reader people, so I wonder if > others are having less trouble with this than I am, or know how to improve > the situation. > Thanks. > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 7/14/2005 > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
