[gui-talk] NPR Survey

[Joel Deutsch]

Evan,

Well, I'm guessing you may not know that I don't have any idea what bells 
and whistles may be missing from the text version, actually. I'll bet those 
may be page elements that you can see, and which look spiffy. But all I 
cared about was that I could still find the basic program material. The 
headlines for individual segments, the disclosure of the musical interludes 
(formerly the "music buttons," if I recall correctly) and that's about it. 
So whatever goodies you're alluding to, I've never noticed and am not 
missing. And I just clicked on a Play link for one of this evening's ATC 
segments and sure enough, my own Windows Media Player, which I can pause, 
resume, and stop, launched. what more could I ask for.

So thanks a lot.
Joel
----- 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 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NPR Survey


Yes.  It appears that the text-only site is not as complete as the full
graphical one.  However, for listening to full episodes and individual
stories from popular NPR programs, it is great.  It is sure handy to be aple
to have full keyboard access to pausing and advancing from story to story
within the stand-alone Windows Media Player application.

Evan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NPR Survey


> 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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