Thanks Bobcat. That works for me as well. Not a nice solution, but
better than nothing.

   <*** Michael Lang ***>

You wrote:

> I've actually had a little luck getting at those bass and treble controls.

> 1:  Make sure your screen reader is reading tool tips.  The values of the 
> sliders and the headers will be spoken when the mouse moves over them.

> 2:  Rout your Jaws or mouse pointer to the active window.

> 3:  Use the mouse up, down, left, and right movement keys.  ctrl+shift+arrow 
> keys with Jaws and WindowEyes.

> 4:  If you hear a number spoken you have landed on a slider.

> 5:  Lock the left mouse button down.

> 6:  Use mouse up and down to change the levels.  These are vertical sliders.

> 7:  You might not hear the values change so unlock the left mouse and move 
> the pointer to the left or right a few spaces to get off the control.  The 
> new value will be spoken when you move back to the control.

> Master volume is the first slider on the left.  Next is bass, then treble.

> I wish I could give you the coordinates for the sliders but Jaws doesn't 
> seem to report this accurately, probably cause I'm not doing it right.  I've 
> tried making a frame around each slider but that didn't work either.

> I'm sure someone could actually write a Jaws script for the Creative mixer 
> if they tried.

> It is a shame that Creative kept making their mixers less accessible over 
> time.  Their old AWE 32 mixer actually worked well and even had hot keys to 
> move direct to controls.

> Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:58 PM
> Subject: SoundBlaster's inaccessible equalizer


>> Older SoundBlaster cards offered a slider for bass and trebble,
>> controlable via Windows's standard mixer. Newer cards don't have these
>> software sliders anymore. They offer a graphical equalizer software
>> instead, with which one seemingly can adjust more sound frequency
>> bands. However, this graphical equalizer seems to be inaccessible to
>> 100 %. Does anybody here know a solution for this problem? Is there
>> perhaps an alternative software to control the SoundBlaster equalizer?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>   <*** Michael Lang ***>
>>
>>
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