[gui-talk] Installed new Winamp but can't touch it with Jaws

[hmp]

This is very unfair slightly by the fact that some software 
manufacturers tend to make their software inaccessible. I have 
experienced this too. I don't like it. Sometimes you upgrade to a 
newer version of that program, and a screen reader doesn't touch 
it at all. Anyways, why are the software developers this way? Why 
aren't they providing accessibility with screen readers?

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
>To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:59:10 -0800
>Subject: [gui-talk] Installed new Winamp but can't touch it with 
Jaws

>Remember I was trying to get rid of that update notice that was 
blockingh me
>from Winamp? Well, I went to the Control Panel, Add/Remove  
Software, and
>removed it. A dialogue said that a few files had been left 
behind, and I
>could delete them if I liked.

>So I  found the Winamp section of Program Files, and deleted 
every thing
>there, which was mostly subfolders that said something about 
Add-Ons and
>another that said Windows Detect. I figured I was doing the right 
thing.

>well I founddownloaded and installed  the new free version of 
Winamp, and
>because I chose to allow it to open when I finished the 
installation, a
>brawny-sounding male voice said something about how great Winamp 
is, for a
>few seconds. during this time, I could pause it, end it and/or 
start from
>the beginning just like normal, but guess what? When I exited it 
then
>pressed Enter to play one of my .mp3 music files (which I keep on 
my
>computer, not in some library attached to a player program), the 
song played
>and I could see the dark square that was Winamp, but I couldn't 
touch it
>with the keyboard commands.

>Anybody know why things happened this way? I'm really 
disappointed. I was
>having so much trouble with that update invvitation that I went 
through all
>this, and now it doesn't work right with Jaws.

>I'll admit that all I care about is that Winamp lets you see 
stuff like
>track name, length, how it was recorded or compressed, start, 
pause and
>start it by will.

>But what's all this about, anyway? Help!
>Jole


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