Hello Everyone, I cannot remember if this subject has already been discussed, on list, but just in case it has not:
Perhaps the following tip may benefit those using screen readers, also, but I discovered it because, as a screen magnifier user (in addition to my screen reader and my beloved Braille display) I really dislike the new Playlist view in iTunes 12.3 in which (1) the Playlist background color is based on the album artwork and (2) each listing of a title in a Playlist is preceded by the song's artwork in the left-most column. Also, in the default Playlist view, one cannot modify column headings, etc, as one could do in iTunes 11 and earlier. Please note that the following is written with screen magnifier users in mind, only. 1. To disable the custom color feature, from the Edit menu, select Preferences. Next, simply uncheck the "Use Custom Colors" checkbox. The actual checkbox has a slightly longer label but it will be clear when you see it. 2. In order to have your Playlists appear as they did in iTunes 11 and earlier (removing the artwork from the left-most column and enabling column browser customization: A. Select a Playlist in the left pane of iTunes. B. Near the upper-right corner of the display, just under the search box, you will see a drop-down list box which will most likely be set to Playlist. Simply change that to Songs. That's all there is to it. The Playlist will now appear as it did in iTunes 11 and earlier without any artwork. Be certain not to confuse the upper-right drop-down list box with the button labeled "Edit Playlist". One more thing, you will have to perform step 2 for each playlist. As far as I can tell, there is no way to change the default view for all the playlist to display only the songs, at once. The good news is that iTunes will remember the view for each Playlist. As I researched this, I discovered that there are a great number of sighted people who are very unhappy that Apple has made it more difficult to display merely the songs in a Playlist. They have been sending Apple a lot of negative feedback. I can only hope that Apple will listen. Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
