apple's screen reader (was New Linux PDA For Blind People)

[Travis Siegel]

Already addressed, but here's a partial list.
To replace itunes, you can use:
vlc, quicktime, real player, audacity, audio hijack,  and various  
command-line utilities if you don't mind using the terminal application.
This is of course, only a partial list, depending on what you were  
planning on using ITunes for.  If you want the itunes store, there's  
nothing to replace it, unless you use audible, since most of it's  
content is available on the itunes store.  However, in general itunes  
can be avoided except in the case of a very few specialized tasks  
such as playing audible content since audible has an itunes plugin  
that allows playing audible content on the mac.
On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:22 PM, hank smith wrote:

> what alternitive players is there besides itunes?
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>> Actually iTunes is usable to some extent--honest.  You just have to
>> remember where you are on the screen.  Mind you, there are
>> alternative players that I mostly use now.  iTunes is somethingI use
>> mainly fr when I want music that's playing selected for my
>> LiveJournal entries that I do on this machine.
>>
>> Jane
>>
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>> I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over
>>> heavily
>>> but I did give Itunes a try.  Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a
>>> church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco
>>> framework in order for Voice Over to work.  Itunes and the ports of
>>> Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just  
>>> flat
>>> don't work in Voice Over.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
>>>> What are you talking about?
>>>> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd playing,
>>>> cd/
>>>> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing,  
>>>> and to
>>>> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100%
>>>> accessible.  There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast
>>>> creation as well.  If there's stuff you can't do on the mac,  
>>>> there's
>>>> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it.
>>>> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but  
>>>> there's
>>>> always workarounds.  The shell prompt (they call it terminal)  
>>>> works,
>>>> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry
>>>> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine.
>>>> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video
>>>> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon DVD
>>>> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers
>>>> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text using  
>>>> the
>>>> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/
>>>> better to use.  I'd suggest going into your local apple store,
>>>> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not
>>>> usable.  I think you might be surprised at how much you can do
>>>> with it.
>>>
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