Did you know? Their is an Apple Music app for Windows, grabbable from the Microsoft App store? Pretty cool. The app is pretty accessible out of the box, but, You have to, tab to every control. These scripts give you much easier navigation. Of course, they are free to use.
Scripts for the Apple Music Preview app, readme,
written by Drew Weber.
february 2024
Note, the word, Preview, is in the Apple Music application name, these scripts are not a demo with limited functionality.
Installation.
Copy the other four files besides this readme to your JAWS User settings folder.
Navigate to the JAWS main window.
Press alt+u to launch the utilities menu.
Press x, to launch the Utilities folder.
Press E until you reach, Explore My settings. Press enter.
Now, using Insert+t, JAWS should announce, ENU. If so, you are in the correct folder.
Usage:
Issues with these scripts.
When Apple Music launches focus is lost and you must alt+tab back to the application.
The scripts resolve this issue upon first launch only, once per run of JAWS. If you end up in another open application, just alt+tab over to Apple music.
Moving to the volume section using Control+V will not work in less you first navigate to volume mannually. Press Control+shift+a to move to the actions
menu, then tab over to the volume button, press space and then escape. After you’ve done this, Control+v is expected to work from anywhere in the application.
Navigating to the library with Control+l, playlists with Control+P may not always work as expected. I feel it is because these areas of the application
may be hidden at times. If you press control+shift+s to navigate to search, then tab once you will be in the library tree which includes playlists etc.
If you are trying to get to library and focus doesn’t move there, you may press control+l twice quickly to navigate to search and receive a message to tab
once to the library.
keystrokes included within these scripts for the Apple Music application include,
Music transport controls
Press, Control Space to, Play/Pause
Press, control left arrow to skip back to the previous track.
Press, Control Right arrow to skip to the next track.
Press, control R to cycle through repeat modes.
Press, control S to toggle shuffle mode.
Press control V to move to the volume controls which includes a volume slider, and mute button. Please see above if this isn’t working as expected.
moving to different parts of the Apple Music application.
Control shift S moves you to the search edit.
Control L moves you to the library tree. Press twice quickly to move to search, and then tab to the library tree. Please see above if this isn’t working.
Once you have navigated to artists and pressed enter, use Control 1 to take you into the artist list. Once you have found an artist by arrowing down and
pressing enter, use, control 2, to move you to the albums list. Once you have found an album, tab to the more button, and press the applications key for
further options. If you press the applications key while in the albums list, you will hear a message guiding you to tab once, and then press the applications
key.
Press, Control P to move to the Playlists section.
Press, Control Shift L to move to the Listen Now section.
Press, Control Shift R to move to the radio section.
Press, Control B to move to the brows section.
Press, Alt Left arrow to navigate back in the application.
Press escape to close this message.