Re: [orca-list] Orca and Podcast Streaming

[Robert cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Christopher.

I am not quite sure, but I think that it may be an accessibility related 
problem. I am able to use the F6 key to jump between panes in the 
Banshee window, but when it comes to using Orca for browsing albums, it 
just does not speak. I have a very small bit of vision, so I use 
magnification when I need to, but I am really trying to depend on it as 
little as possible...I still need it, though, for the time being.

When browsing albums and podcast episodes, Banshee displays the album 
name as an icon. It tries to find the cover image for the particular 
album and displays it above the album title (or beside it when it comes 
to podcasts). I seem to be able to audibly navigate everything in 
Banshee excluding the viewing of albums and podcast episodes. It is a 
little quirky sometimes, too, but it works for the most part for me. I 
really like it because it has support for video as well as audio, so I 
can basically use one program for everything for the most part.

I didn't see any bug reports for this issue...but I am not sure if it 
would be a bug, per se, or more so a feature request.

While I was heavily relying on magnification, I almost exclusively used 
Banshee. I'm hoping that it can be that way now that I am using Orca.

On 01/19/2012 04:14 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I don't have an answer to your question, but it's good to hear that
> someone's successfully using Banshee. I tried to use it when it became
> the default media player in Ubuntu 11.04, but there were some things I
> just couldn't figure out. I wasn't sure if it was due to any
> accessibility issues or that I just didn't spend enough time with it. It
> seems to be the latter case now that I see your feedback on Banshee.
> Maybe I'll give it another try. I ended up just going back to Rhythm Box.
>
> On 19/01/12 17:57, Robert cole wrote:
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > I currently use Banshee as my main multimedia player; I just love the
> > fact that it is an all-in-one approach! However, I find that Banshee is
> > kind of inaccessible when it comes to listening to podcasts. I had no
> > problems at all subscribing to podcasts using Orca in Banshee, but when
> > it comes to actually listening to episodes, the titles and information
> > related to any given episode is not read aloud. As much as I would hate
> > to use a different piece of sotware for listening to podcasts, I think
> > that this may be the thing to do for the time being.
> >
> > Would anyone here on the list have any recommendations for a program
> > which is accessible to Orca that can be used to stream podcasts?
> >
> > I am going to try and contact teh Banshee developers and let them know
> > about this. Eerything else seems to work just fine in Banshee, except
> > for when it comes to streaming podcasts. It  may be due in part to teh
> > fact that th epodcast episodes are presented in a tiled format, each
> > tile having a graphical icon and a title and description of the podcast.
> > I am not sure.
> >
> > Thanks for any help on this one.
> >
> > Take care.
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