On 3/2/08, Gary G Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am glad you brought up the silver lite thing. somehow I was able to go > back and choose the classic media player.
I heard from a tech support rep at Freedom Scientific today. He affirms that, as far as he knows, SilverLight is not accessible to JAWS. In fact, the program might have been developed specifically so that only a mouse could invoke the SilverLight player. (Thanks again for your "sensitivity" to access issues, Microsoft!) > > When I tried the silverlight thing, I was > told something about doing maintenance and to try later which didn't make > sense > at the time when I wanted to listen to a live ball game. Gary, I got that same message after switching from the SilverLight player to the classic media player and trying to listen to a game this past Friday. However, today I received some positive results: I loaded the GameDay Audio page, chose a feed I wanted to hear, logged in with my password, and realized that Internet Explorer had remembered my preference for the classic media player. I didn't have to select it again. And after getting past the security prompts, the game played just fine and with much better and more consistent audio quality than I had remembered from 2007. > > somehow I thought that I may have clicked on the TV feed by accident. During spring training, interestingly enough, some of those TV feeds actually are viewable by those who haven't paid the $14.99/month--or whatever it is--to watch the live TV games. MLB.com makes those available to us as a promotional thing, of course, so that people who benefit from the visuals will buy the MLB video package. You probably know that you can opt for a certain home team or road team audio feed just by clicking on the name of the flagship station where the program airs in the radio world. For instance, I caught part of the St. Louis-Washington game earlier today and was able to go straight to it by clicking on the link labeled WWWT, which is the name of the Washington Nationals' flagship station this season. Usually the video feeds, while not named after a station, are named by the type or speed of the Web stream: such as 750K or 400K. Happy listening. Play ball! -Kane > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "KANE BROLIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense > > > > HHi, Gary and others. > > > > I've run MLB's GameDay Audio on a PC for ten years now. Just this year, > > I've discovered that MLB tends now to play most of its multimedia content > > inside a Microsoft SilverLight frame--somewhat somilar to an Adobe Flash > > Player frame, except it's Microsoft's proprietary flash player. Even on a > > PC, this causes lots of problems if one is totally without eyesight and > > running a screen reader, because JAWS does not seem to recognize or allow > me > > to invoke any of the buttons inside of the SilverLight frame with the > > keyboard. I've brought up this issue on the PC Audio Discussion List > > previously, and I've presented it to JAWS Tech Support too. No answer as > > yet. > > > > You do have the option sometimes to make MLB's site honor your preference > of > > going back to their "classic" media player, which seems to be just Windows > > Media Player running inside a separate IE window. This works as long as > > MLB's multimedia sites are up and runnning. > > > > All this might cause a problem with Braille Sense. But since I've not > used > > a Braille Sense before, I regr3ettably can't help you there. > > > > -Kane > > > > > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
