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Hello Leonard - 

LE>> folks fdon't want the stupid background music endlessly
LE>> looping (a blind friend has a lot of mostly unprintable
LE>> things to say about *that* bit of stupidity, as it make
LE>> itimpossible for her to hear her screen reader reading the
LE>> text), there are lots of stupid "designers" out there. 

It's called 'multimedia' and was a hot topic a few years ago.
It's not 'stupid' it's progress even if a few don't like it.
You can't please _everyone_ all of the time. :-\ 

JB>> She needs a second sound card for the reader, then she
JB>> could turn down the effects sound. 

LE>  Windoze doesn't support that as far as I know. 

AFAIK windows does support multiple sound cards. I don't do it
here but I've read conversations about having more than one
sound card. Usually a _real_ MIDI card with a standard
soundcard in the same machine. 

LE> What she would need would be a dedicated "speech" device.
LE> They exist, and, in fact, when I hit ebay to get a braille
LE> "printer" for myself so I could Braille stuff to give her,
LE> I got lucky and got oopne that has such built-in. I need to
LE> figure out how to drive it directrly, rather than thru the
LE> *expensive* reader programs. 

Depending on which browser she is using: 

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Mozilla:

Edit>Preferences>Navigator>Helper Applications>

remove: audio/mid, audio/midi, audio/mpeg
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or:

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Internet Explorer (mine is v6):

Tools>Internet Options>Advanced (tab)>Multimedia

_uncheck_:
Play animations in web pages
Play sounds in web pages
Play videos in web pages
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These  changes  probably  won't  be  100% but it would certainly
reduce the websites ability to automate sound on her machine. 

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