[Promotion-technology] Using MLB.COM

[David Andrews]

>From:         Anthony R Candela <acandela at JUNO.COM>
>Subject: [VICUG-L] MLB.COM
>To:           VICUG-L at LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
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>Major League Baseball on the Web: 2008
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>Instructions for blind users.
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>By Tony Candela who spent an hour with a very patient mlb.com 
>customer service employee to whom he is grateful.
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>For assistance, call the mlb.com Customer Support department at 
>1-866-800-1275 for troubleshooting and to assure you are properly 
>subscribed and have a working password.
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>For best results in getting to your game, use the following web address:
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><http://www.mlb.com/mediacenter>www.mlb.com/mediacenter
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>Save this address in your favorites.
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>Go to the mlb.com/mediacenter web site and use your screenreader 
>search feature to find a radio station that broadcasts your favorite 
>team and which you know is playing live at the moment (e.g., based 
>on time of day, my test stations have been KABC in <?xml:namespace 
>prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Los 
>Angeles and WFAN in New York).
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>Press ENTER on the link
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>Search for "e-mail address" and press ENTER on the edit box. Fill in 
>your e-mail address. Tab to the next box and enter your password.
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>Tab twice to the submit button and press the space bar.
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>If your computer does not have Microsoft Silverlight media player 
>already installed, the screen you will be brought to will ask you to 
>install it.  Search for the word "install" and press ENTER on the link.
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>On the new screen that comes up, find the "install now" button or 
>link and press ENTER.  The Silverlight media player software, 
>mlb.com's preferred media player, will begin to download.  It is 
>safe to allow this process to take place. There may be one more 
>"install now" button to press before the process is completed.
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>When prompted, tab to the "run" button and press space bar.  This 
>prompt may happen twice, so press space bar on the run button again 
>if it comes up.
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>The "close" button should appear and be enunciated almost 
>immediately.  Find it if your screenreader does not enunciate it and 
>press space bar. This closes the Silverlight installation screen.
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>Close all screens with alt-F4, turn off your computer for best results.
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>Reboot your computer, go back to Internet Explorer and to the 
>mlb.com/mediacenter website.  If all has gone well, you will be 
>ready for a normal approach to getting your game.  Here it is.
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>Use your screenreader's "find" feature to land on the radio station 
>link you originally selected (e.g., KABC) and press ENTER on the link.
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>You will be placed in a log in screen. Since your screenreading 
>software may not enunciate everything on its own, find and fill in 
>the e-mail address and password boxes to log in again.  The radio 
>station should come on line.
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>Happy baseball listening!
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