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failing an external synth route your speech to either a USB headset or USB
speaker For example, on
my desktop JAWS is on a dedicated USB speaker which allows me to run music and
what have you through
my primary sound card and send that audio to my stereo unmolested by speech.
When I do the live
webcast I route JAWS to my primary soundcard with SPL off on its own USB device
and plug an earphone
in so that speech does not enter the data stream.
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 20:43
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: RE: SoundCloud
An external speech synthesizer would eliminate this problem. Also, scanning the
web pate before
pressing play would reveal the controls, if any, that are accessible.
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Walter Ramage
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 2:23 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: SoundCloud
Hi. I was asked to check this out from a user point of view and didn't find
it accessible. I was
asked on behalf of a charity project to play around with pre-uploaded music
files and didn't find
the free version much use. This guy wanted to upload audio files for the
public to play such as
info regarding government benefits etc. I'll paste my response to that guy
below so you will see my
experience. Walter.
Hi Glyn. Firstly my apology; I was going through my deleted items, clearing
them out when I came
across your email. somehow it went straight to my deleted items rather than my
in box. I would
have replied sooner if I had seen it so sorry about that.
OK. This is my initial input regarding the site. The music is displayed
clearly and the play
button is easy to find and activate but that is where the simplicity ends and
the problems begin.
Once you have activated the play button and the music plays, there is no way
you can use the other
play controls because the music drowns out the screen reader and as there is no
keyboard short cut
keys trying to use them is a hiding to nothing. You have to wait for a quiet
passage in the audio
before trying frantically to find a control but the quiet period never lasts
long enough for you to
find what you want. This is the free version and I noticed there is a Pro
service but I guess you
have to pay for that but there is no way of telling if the pro version is any
more accessible than
the free version and in any case, the people who would want to play any files
you upload would use
the free service. As I've said I've only looked at the site briefly and when I
discovered getting
to the play controls during playback was problematic I didn't go any further.
As with WMP, if there
were short cut keys such as
Control+s for stop or Control+p for pause or control+m for mute
Control+or+control
+r for rewind then it would be a good service to utilise. It might be
+you
can map the keyboard and create these shortcuts but I'd need to look further
into the site and I'll
do that as soon as I can. Of course this initial summery is from a blind point
of view. People
with hearing loss or other disabilities but who have site, or even some
partially sighted folk would
be able to use it. Unfortunately though if you have no usable sight and in the
absence of play
controls accessibility then it wouldn't be of any use to them. Nonetheless you
have to consider the
majority of people who would use the facility and a minority group shouldn't be
allowed to veto
something because they are disenfranchised; you can please all of the people
some of the time and
some of the people all of the time but you will never please all of the people
all of the time.
This doesn't mean that solutions aren't sought to resolve the
disenfranchisement and that might be
by linking to another service. I will ask on the tech lists I'm on to see what
can be done and will
get back to you. Walter.
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Portillo
Sent: 16 October 2015 05:09
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: SoundCloud
Hello there,
Has anyone used a program called SoundCloud with JAWS, and if so, how easy is
it to use? I'm
needing to start using it and am just beginning to see how it works. Any
suggestions would be
appreciated.
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