what alternitive players is there besides itunes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Jordan (gmail)" <juanitatighan@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:20 AM Subject: Re: apple's screen reader (was New Linux PDA For Blind People) > Actually iTunes is usable to some extent--honest. You just have to > remember where you are on the screen. Mind you, there are > alternative players that I mostly use now. iTunes is somethingI use > mainly fr when I want music that's playing selected for my > LiveJournal entries that I do on this machine. > > Jane > > > On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over >> heavily >> but I did give Itunes a try. Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a >> church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco >> framework in order for Voice Over to work. Itunes and the ports of >> Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just flat >> don't work in Voice Over. >> >> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote: >>> What are you talking about? >>> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd playing, >>> cd/ >>> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing, and to >>> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100% >>> accessible. There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast >>> creation as well. If there's stuff you can't do on the mac, there's >>> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it. >>> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but there's >>> always workarounds. The shell prompt (they call it terminal) works, >>> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry >>> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine. >>> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video >>> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon DVD >>> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers >>> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text using the >>> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/ >>> better to use. I'd suggest going into your local apple store, >>> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not >>> usable. I think you might be surprised at how much you can do >>> with it. >> >> >> - -- >> HolmesGrown Solutions >> The best solutions for the best price! >> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFEL5mgWSjv55S0LfERA3FfAJ0R6Ue8TWie8EDeidoFdBORXsZJ+QCfahU+ >> zwlPhrhiMU9DXWi6fubcNLU= >> =Njcl >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 1.1467 (20060402) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
