MyPODable after all: Blind woman already using Shuffle

Related: Can Everyone do the iPOD Shuffle? from the American Foundation for the Blind site. The answer, at least for the older iPOD, seems to be "Yes, for the most part."

Now, here's another question. Exactly how blind-friendly are iPodder and similar programs, and what about iTunes? Anyone know? I suspect that David Faucheux's bro would love to set David up to receive podcasts on the latter's desktop. And if iPodder and the rest are not blind friendly, the podcast community might well be willing to try to address the possible problem.

Also, on another topic, here's a reminder. iPodder-style software will not pick up text notes such as the clarification we immediately posted about podcasts being hearable on machines besides the iPod. Or at least the text isn't visible in the usual mode of iTunes, which I use to hear the final results.

Psst! You may want to pass the word on if you have a friend who listens via David's podcasts but does not keep up with the entire blog, of which text can be a part. Our RSS feeds offer full text from posts that include text--not all do. - David Rothman.

Comment from Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks on the missing text: "Of course, my solution to this problem is that any feed I subscribe to with IPodder, I also subscribe to with Bloglines. This has the added benefits of A) letting me know when to expect something new through iiPodder (knowledge which has led to me catching some errors in downloading that I would have missed otherwise) and B) of making the site visible within my blogroll on Open Stacks, so I can promote the audio content to which I listen."