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that would also work if you could do it
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Samuel
Wilkins
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 7:31
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: SoundCloud
I have noticed that nowadays, in the adjust system volume settings, you could
turn down the browser
but leave the screen reader at its normal volume. I have found this on 3
computers that use
different sound cards using windows 7 and 8.1.
On 16/10/2015 22:10, ken wrote:
> Hi, the only thing that might work, is Get a usb external card
> that has a speaker and direct you jaws , or windoweyes output to that
> card..
> That's what I did, exept I have a usb mike and use the laptop's
> speaker for my w e output.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Spratt
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:43 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: RE: SoundCloud
>
> An external speech synthesizer would eliminate this problem. Also,
> scanning the web pate before pressing play would reveal the controls,
> if any, that are accessible.
>
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> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
> Walter Ramage
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 2:23 AM
> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: SoundCloud
>
> Hi. I was asked to check this out from a user point of view and
> didn't find it accessible. I was asked on behalf of a charity project
> to play around with pre-uploaded music files and didn't find the free
> version much use. This guy wanted to upload audio files for the
> public to play such as info regarding government benefits etc. I'll
> paste my response to that guy below so you will see my experience.
> Walter.
>
> Hi Glyn. Firstly my apology; I was going through my deleted items,
> clearing them out when I came across your email. somehow it went
> straight to my deleted items rather than my in box. I would have
> replied sooner if I had seen it so sorry about that.
>
> OK. This is my initial input regarding the site. The music is
> displayed clearly and the play button is easy to find and activate but
> that is where the simplicity ends and the problems begin. Once you
> have activated the play button and the music plays, there is no way
> you can use the other play controls because the music drowns out the
> screen reader and as there is no keyboard short cut keys trying to use
> them is a hiding to nothing.
> You have
> to wait for a quiet passage in the audio before trying frantically to
> find a control but the quiet period never lasts long enough for you to
> find what you want. This is the free version and I noticed there is a
> Pro service but I guess you have to pay for that but there is no way
> of telling if the pro version is any more accessible than the free
> version and in any case, the people who would want to play any files
> you upload would use the free service. As I've said I've only looked
> at the site briefly and when I discovered getting to the play controls
> during playback was problematic I didn't go any further. As with WMP,
> if there were short cut keys such as
> Control+s for stop or Control+p for pause or control+m for mute
> or+control
> +r for rewind then it would be a good service to utilise. It might be
> you
> can map the keyboard and create these shortcuts but I'd need to look
> further into the site and I'll do that as soon as I can. Of course
> this initial summery is from a blind point of view. People with
> hearing loss or other disabilities but who have site, or even some
> partially sighted folk would be able to use it. Unfortunately though
> if you have no usable sight and in the absence of play controls
> accessibility then it wouldn't be of any use to them. Nonetheless you
> have to consider the majority of people who would use the facility and
> a minority group shouldn't be allowed to veto something because they
> are disenfranchised; you can please all of the people some of the time
> and some of the people all of the time but you will never please all
> of the people all of the time. This doesn't mean that solutions
> aren't sought to resolve the disenfranchisement and that might be by
> linking to another service. I will ask on the tech lists I'm on to
> see what can be done and will get back to you. Walter.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Portillo
> Sent: 16 October 2015 05:09
> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
> Subject: SoundCloud
>
> Hello there,
>
>
>
> Has anyone used a program called SoundCloud with JAWS, and if so, how
> easy
> is it to use? I'm needing to start using it and am just beginning to see
> how it works. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>
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Regards,
Samuel Wilkins
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