----- Original Message -----
From: "Candy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Audio Question
> Ray,
> I have a friend that is having a similar problem. She has been displaced
> to
> Lafayette since Hurricane Katrina. She would like to listen to
> fox8live.com. That is fox 8 news in New Orleans. When he goes to the
> page
> that says live stream, there is no audio. Just silence. She is running
> jaws 6, windows media 11 and IE explorer 6.
> If you come up with a solution please let me know.
>
> Candy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Audio Question
>
>
> Hi Pratik:
>
> 1. No audio player like Windows Media Player or Winamp comes up.
> 2. My client does have Real Player installed, and so do I. Since he
> has Real Player, and since the audio on the site doesn't play for him,
> I'm thinking it's not playing using Real Player.
> 3. I tried, both in Configuration Manager and in JAWS Verbosity Mode to
> turn flash off, then refresh the page. It kept playing for me.
>
> I'm probably going to write to Fox News Talk and see if they have any
> other ideas.
>
> Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician
> Adaptive Technology Center
> Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
> 1850 W. Roosevelt Road
> Chicago, IL 60608
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pratik Patel
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Audio Question
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> There are a couple of possibilities here. I rather suspect that Jana is
> not being used to play the audio.
>
> Question: When you play the audio on your computer, does your qudio
> player like Winamp or Windows Media Player or Quicktime come up? If so,
> then there is no embedded audio.
>
> Second possibility: Do you have Real Audio Player installed? If so,
> your computer may be playing it through RealPlayer.
>
> Third possibility: the all-pervasive flash. As already mentioned by
> someone, make sure that Flash plug-in is installed. You can download
> the flash plug-in at http://www.adobe.com. You also need to make sure
> that nothing like the screen reader is blocking the flash. JAWS, for
> instance, has the ability to disable flash on web pages. You can have
> the person use
> Inserv+v command when located on that page and press F for flash. If it
>
> Inserv+is
> disabled, press spacebar to enable it. Press enter to accept the
> options.
> Refresh the page and see if this was the culprit. This change will
> disappear when you exit the browser or if you change focus to another
> app.
> If you want to make this change permanent, you'll have to do it through
> configuration manager (Insert+6 when in Internet Explorer). Alt+s for
> settings, H for HTML Options, ... Be sure to save the settings when
> done.
>
> HTH.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Campbell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [bits] Internet Audio Question
>
> Hello All:
>
> I'm trying to help a client that is using Windows Internet Explorer 7.
> He wants to be able to listen to www.foxnewstalk.com. When he goes to
> the site, then presses enter on the Listen Live link, no audio comes up.
> however, when I go to the same site running IE 7 and press enter on the
> Listen Live link, I pick up the streaming audio.
>
> It appears that when you press enter on the Listen Live link on this
> site, it takes you to an html page which is probably running some sort
> of Java applett. Sounds simple enough, right, just make sure my
> client's IE 7 Java options are set up. Well, when I go into
> tools->options from Internet Explorer 7 on my system, then ctrl-tab over
> to advanced, I can find a list item that says (Java (sun) opened.
> However, when we go to the same place on the client's machine, there is
> no such Java (sun) opened item.
>
> I went to tools->options in IE 7 on my system and tried disabling Sun
> Java Console to see if I could re-create the problem. After doing this,
> the Listen Live link at foxnewstalk.com still works for me.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of things we can try?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
> Ray Campbell
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>
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