This was sent as a follow-up to the one I just posted. Hi, Louis:
It was great to wake up this morning and find your reply in my inbox. Yes, I definitely remember corresponding with you specifically about 15, 18 months ago. I understand your constraints, and it's neat that you still remember that blind broadcasters need what your software has to offer. I'm copying my fellow ACB Radio broadcaster [name removed] on this message so he may chime in with his comments regarding the use of SAM with his preferred screenreader, Window-Eyes. What we're finding is problems in the display only. The hot-keys/shortcut-keys work well, and there seems to be one for just about every important function SAM has, with very few exceptions. For instance, a key to lock down the click-to-talk microphone button would be helpful instead of having to hold down the F11 key. But the real problems are with the display, as you already know, because of use of non-standard Windows controls for such things as lists and combo boxes for scrolling through the contents of the database in various views (by category, by title, etc.). The queue window is visible, all except for the very first item (the currently loaded and playing track). If I could find it on the screen, or, I should more properly say if JAWS could, I could put a JAWS window around it, assign it to a hot-key, and read it on demand. I could also fix it so that whenever it changed, when a new track came up for playing, JAWS would announce it. I can, however, use the TAB key to move around the screen and read some things--time elapsed and time remaining are easily read for the currently playing track, although I do have to check both decks to find it. If there were an easy way to determine which deck was playing, then look at that deck's timers, that's something that JAWS could do with a little JAWS scripting. But whatever is on the screen that shows which deck is playing is invisible to JAWS. OK, maybe I could program something to look in first one deck's timers, then the other, then speak a custom message determined by which deck had data to read. That's certainly a doable workaround for JAWS. But the no-title-of-current-track is a big problem, just about the biggest from my standpoint as a JAWS user. [name deleted] has tried SAM2 and 3 with both JAWS and Window-Eyes, and I am sure can and will give more comments on his experiences with both. Thanks again for your rapid response, and I'm sure between the three of us and our various screenreading technologies and developer's knowledge, we can make SAM much more blind-broadcaster-friendly than it currently is. -- Steve Matzura Resources Coordinator ACB Radio Interactive http://interactive.acbradio.org Tel: (888) 628-0872 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
