C-SPAN RADIO

Submitted by Justin Ekis on 18 February, 2011 and last modified on 4 October, 2017

Description of App:

Listen to the network that covers Washington like no other.

The C-SPAN Radio app delivers live audio streams of commercial-free public affairs programming (C-SPAN Radio, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3) and audio podcasts of some of our regularly scheduled programs around the clock, wherever you are.

Hear Congressional hearings and key speeches from national and world leaders.

Our daily Washington Journal call-in program and the Sunday network talk programs.

Authors on Book TV and rare archival audio from historical leaders and events on American History TV.

C-SPAN Radio 90.1 FM in the Washington area and on XM Channel 132.

Created by Cable. Offered as a public service.

Apple Watch Support:

Not Known

Version:

2.0

Free or Paid:

Free

Accessibility Comments:

The buttons in this app are not clearly labeled. In the radio player, there are only a few buttons and I was able to figure them out. The podcasts area was a little more complicated. I'll describe the radio player here, perhaps someone can add a comment with information about the podcasts. The radio screen contains four different play buttons with a number at the end of each label. the button ending in 0 plays C-SPAN Radio, and the buttons ending in 1, 2, and three play audio from the three C-SPAN cable television channels. The info button brings up two completely unlabeled buttons. The first one opens safari to the C-SPAN radio web page, the second one starts a new email message to C-SPAN.

VoiceOver Performance:

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling:

No buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability:

There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.