Thanks for that. I’m going to have fun in a month’s time or thereabouts then.
Jonathan Mosen wrote a book on the Apple TV though I’m still trying to find out whether it covers the 3G or 4G, the book came out before the official release of the 4G. For those who are interested - and if you don’t want to be bothered with Apps - the 3G Apple TV version is still being sold in the Apple Store - at least in Australia - but that of course means that you won’t get the benefit of Apps - but you can still enjoy things the way they are. Another workaround with the new Apple TV might be a Bluetooth keyboard? As far as I know the 4G - like the 2G and 3G before it - will work with a Bluetooth keyboard. The iPhone App I think mary is referring to is the Apple Remote App so I’ll take a look at that at the appropriate time. > On 21 Dec 2015, at 11:13 AM, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Well, this new way of doing things on apple tv means you really can't > go by previous experiences with older models. That is because they now > have an app model rather than a channel model. So gone is the > accessible grid-type layout. The remote is totally different. There is, > as yet, no bt keyboard access, but there is apparently some sort of > work around involving the use of an iPhone. Since I don't have the A tv > 4, I didn't pay particular attention to the details. And, with the app > model, it means that who ever develops the app for the channel or group > of channels is free to make it as accessible or not as they wish. > Hopefully, this one you just mentioned will have done the right thing > with regard to implementing accessibility within their app.Netflix > still hasn't managed to make audio description accessible by the end > user. You have to call them and hope you get a rep with a clue; they > turn it on for you at their end, and then it is on for everybody all > the time on any program that has it, whether they want it or not, e.g. > somebody sighted who doesn't want it is out of luck. > > Hopefully, all this stuff will get ironed out in time, and the > experience will end up being a positive one with more variety and > flexibility than we enjoyed with older versions. I myself am not > running out to buy one. <smile> > > Mary > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
