[gui-talk] NPR Survey

[Joel Deutsch]

Evan,

thanks. I never would have guessed that. And I don't use the text only site 
because generally npr.org doesn't present any disruptive navigation 
challenges to me using Jaws, my screen reader program. The last time I made 
any use of the text version was years ago, when I was using screen 
magnification and, like many low vision computer users (I'm still partially 
sighted but the damage to my retina prevents reading-type acuity), I found 
the simpler page design and plain text fonts easier to decipher. this 
doesn't matter much on a well-designed page for a screen reader user. Well 
designed being the operative phrase, here.

Any downside to going to the text mirror site, as I suppose that's what it 
is? Will I miss any features that are only on the regular site? Besides that 
unmanageable proprietary player, that is? :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evan Silver" <ebs at evansilver.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NPR Survey


Joel,

If you use NPR's text-only version, the listen links will then launch the
stand-alone player such as Windows Media Player.  The URL is:

http://thin.npr.org

Evan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NPR Survey


>I just wrote in saying I'd be happy to participate. I have a problem with
> the relatively new proprietary NPR audio player launching when I click on
> an
> audio stream link at the site and cutting out my own player, because I
> can't
> find any controls on their player with Jaws, nor do they list any keyboard
> commands. Once, I accidentally discovered a control for turning off that
> player and letting my WMP or Winamp player take over so I could control
> things instead of just sitting there listening passively to the end, but
> the
> next time I forgot how I'd found that control.
>
> Just sharing, here on the list. It's the same thing I mentioned up front
> in
> my response to this person.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Schwab" <DSchwab at npr.org>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:15 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] NPR Survey
>
>
> National Public Radio is looking for visually impaired participants to
> survey about their experience with media devices.  If interested, please
> provide name, contact information, preferred contact method (phone,
> email) and type of disability (blindness, dyslexia, etc.) to participant
> coordinator Daniel Schwab at dschwab at npr.org or 202/513.2466.
>
>
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