Portable Player Portal slightly updated

I have made some small changes to the Portable Player Portal pages, including reference to the new iTunes scripts, a change on the mailing list page and so on.

iTunes and JAWS – the Latest News …

It has been some time since I posted a message to the Blog, but I wanted to advise people about the latest release of iTunes version 7.

 

First, I have produced JAWS for Windows scripts to support this release of iTunes, and yes they do function with the latest release which is 7.0.2.  However, I would advise you not to upgrade from iTunes 6 unless you really have to.  Apart from the change in the design of the program requiring separate JAWS scripts, we are unable to support JAWS 7.10.  The visual changes in the product are so different to the extent that JAWS 7.10 has tremendous difficulties in interpreting some of the information on the screen with the JAWS Cursor accurately enough to be anywhere near reliable, and I will not release a product version which I know to be unstable even in part.

 

So the reality is at the moment unless things change, you can use iTunes 7 but only up to and including JAWS 7.0.  This is unfortunate as you may need to upgrade to iTunes 7 because:

A. The new iPods rely on this and

B. If you update the firmware in your older iPod, iTunes version 7 is required as the older iPod Updater program no longer deals with that situation.

 

I have provided a link above to the iTunes scripts so you can read about them if you wish to do that.  We are now up to version 3.0 of scripts to support iTunes 6 and 7 as there are now two downloadable programmes. 

 

For the avoidance of doubt, iTunes version 6 is supported up to and including JAWS 7.10.