[ddots-l] Re: Accessible keyboards?
- From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:37:00 -0600
I certainly think you're on the right page. Seems to me that having
manufacturer's get behind a subset of the MIDI standard, to allow their devices
to send
data in a manner analagous to the way that some of the Kurzweil's do, Dave
Scrimenti (spelling?) and his brother used, might be the direction. The less
well-thought out less well articulated the request, the sillier will be the
results. This is the kind of thing that it would be good to have someone get
behind
and present to manufacturer's meetings at N.A.M. or similar industry-wide
conferences. I would think, for instance, getting the CakeWalk folks, perhaps
because of Jerry knowing them, the ProTools folks, to present a combined
proposal to hardware manufacturer's, with say Jerry, the JSonar, and Dancing
Dots putting together the "wish list" and suggested means by which this could
be accomplished, which would then be endorsed by the software folks
previously mentioned. I would say, for instance, allow the end-user of a
device tp press a button, maybe with a standardized shape or symbol on it,
which
would envoke the data transfer process on a specific channel, so that
commencement of the control process could be done by a blind device owner
independently...
Nick
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:27:22 -0700, Sean A. Cummins wrote:
WHOA! GANG! Please stop and think about what you are asking for!
I am all for asking companies to help, but let's not corner ourselves into
only one answer.
True accessibility is opening the doors to many options and not just one. I
don't know about the rest of you, but I own many different types of
Microphones and many different types of guitars and other instruments
RIGHT?! So why would I want to have only one keyboard company making an
accessible keyboard. OH, I know, we can write all of them, but we'll be
lucky if one even gives such a small market a second thought. Rather, we
need to approach an individual or individuals that can get us access to all
of the MIDI devices that are all ready passing data free from one to the
other.
I had been pioneering a MIDI music system for the blind way back in the
early eighties, and the best thing to have ever happen to the industry was
the development of the MIDI interface. This happens to be one of the only
industries that sat down and worked out a standard by which all computer
based instrument could exchange data and control one another. This data
flow is our key to accessibility! We just need to find the person and or
persons that would continue to bring all of the concepts together.
I would even venture to say that a foundation like the Microsoft Foundation
would underwrite the development of the technology if one were to organize
and manage just such a project.
Data is the key to freedom and not necessarily hardware.
Give a man a fish. and he eats for a day!
Teach a man to fish. and he eats for a lifetime!
In my opinion, this is just what Dancing Dots has done for us all ready! I
propose that someone take up the cause of finding Dancing Dots the
underwriters for their and our benefit!
God bless you all this Thanksgiving!
Sean A. Cummins
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