Wow, this is great news. I'm going to do the update now. Sent from Kimber's iPhone
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was going to post a new message about the latest iTunes update because I am > seeing some fantastic accessibility improvements. > For those who posted about having a worse experience, are we talking about > the same version? > I just opened iTunes on my PC at work and it said there was an update. I am > running Windows 7 on this PC with the latest update of Jaws 18, so I'm not > sure if it's the latest Jaws 18 update or the iTunes update which fixed a lot > of issues, but since Jaws didn't mention iTunes I assume it is iTunes. > The version I just downloaded is 12.5.4.42. > > I connected my iPhone and I see full accessibility restored when it comes to > selecting and syncing apps, music and tones. This has been broken for a long > time, but now Jaws once again goes into list views of artists, albums and > genres and each artist, album and genre has a checkbox which I can check by > pressing the spacebar, I can then tap to Apply and activate it and everything > I selected will sync. I tried it by selecting 5 artists and 1 album from an > artist I hadn't selected and it synced 185 songs, so you can actually mix and > match in that you could select a particular genre like POP, then you could > select a number of artists from other genres and albums from yet other genres > or from artists where you don't want to sync all albums you may have. > > With apps I found that Jaws read the app in the list and it said "Installed" > for apps which I didn't have on my iPhone and "Remove" for apps I did have on > my phone. > If I went to an app which said "Install" and I pressed the spacebar it then > said "To be Installed", if the app said "Remove" then it would say "To be > removed". The only thing is that if you are way down in the list say at the > letter S or T and you press the spacebar on an app to install or remove it, > focus jumps all the way back up to the top. But once you use page down and > down arrow to get back to where you were the item was correctly marked and > once again activating Apply would install/remove whatever you flagged. > > With tones the list of all my ringtones was once again read by Jaws and again > spacebar would check or uncheck the tones and activating the Apply button > would sync them. > > I didn't have time yet to look at iTunes File Transfer and my Windows 10 > laptop is at home so I couldn't try it there. But this is a huge > accessibility improvement. > When I'm in the music library and have the column browser activated I still > have to refresh the screen a lot for Jaws to read my selection as I arrow > through genres, artists and albums, but it also does no longer say "L1" with > each item and all in all this is great news. > I assume that the changes are with iTunes which goes to show that it is not > the fault of Windows or the screenreader. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Larry Lumpkin > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 9:00 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Latest iTunes update and Jaws 18 > > The newest itunes update didn’t do much for me either. I can use it but I > think its functionality is very poor. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jerry White > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 10:54 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Latest iTunes update and Jaws 18 > > After the latest update to iTunes on my Windows 7 PC, I cannot use iTunes at > all! Is anyone else having this problem? When I open iTunes, Jaws reads the > selection that is selected when the program opens. Any key I hit now keeps > giving me a "invalid script call to " whatever key I press. If I press the > tab key, then Jaws says "Invalid script call to the tab key", and then it > spells out "the tab key". Anyone else having this problem? Also, iTunes > doesn't open when I connect my iPhone anymore, but my iPhone 6 says it is > charging, so I know the cable is ok. I get the above error in iTunes even if > I open iTunes when my phone isn't connected. Any thoughts? > > I did have Blind Tunes installed, and I tried uninstalling them to see if > they were conflicting somehow, but no luck! > > Thanks in advance for your help! > Jerry > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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