You might have noticed that today was an Apple "announcements" day. It's the kind that has the bloggers posting paragraph by paragraph on their blogs observations on Steve Job's health and the new stuff. Today, Apple apparently didn't rock the world but something that we've been tracking for a couple years now is iTunes becoming more accessible for visually impaired persons. Apple announced that iTunes version 8 (current version on a PC is 7.7.1.11) that:
Using iTunes 8 with a screen reader such as VoiceOver on Mac OS X, or GW Micro WIndow-Eyes 7 on Windows XP and Windows Vista, blind and visually impaired students, faculty, and staff can browse, search, buy, download and play content from iTunes U and many areas of the iTunes Store. In addition, the new iPod nano (4th generation) features spoken menus, so it can be used to navigate and play tracks downloaded from the iTunes Store and iTunes U just by listening.A couple months ago us iTunes U site admins were asked by Apple to go back and alt tag text to the images on each of our "courses." I did that immediately knowing that something was coming down the pike. I just checked for an update in iTunes and it said that I have the most recent. However, you can go to the iTunes download page and get version 8 now.
We also hope to find that the new version fixed what broke in the last version that enables converting to MP3 a WAV file from a SanDisk.
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