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

[Jane Jordan (gmail)]

RealPlayer, QuickTime, and VLC Media Player.  I *love* VLC.  Sound  
isn't alwas that great--I have yet to figure out how to work the  
equalizers--but I can play all kinds of files on it, except Daisy.   
For that, I use KatiePlayer.  The only reason I have RealPlayer is  
because I have to have that to play files from NPR.

Jane


On Apr 2, 2006, at 3:22 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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