Dear All,
A few of you have asked about the accessibility of Vienna
Instruments from time to time. Unfortunately, I'm not as accomplished a
JAWS user as many of you. Here is one of those cases where a little vision
is a dangerous thing. However, I'm here to report, if I haven't already
done so, that not only can JAWS read the lists in the right hand pane of the
matrix window, essential for selecting matrices which combine instrument
articulations, the user can then lock the mouse and drag a selected matrix
to the left pane and load it into a matrix slot. I never knew that you
could lock and drag before.
Unfortunately, JAWS has no way of telling you where you are when you
drag. Perhaps an HSC set might be devised by someone who has V I.
I haven't bothered to look at the other tabs in the interface to say
what can and can't be done with any of them. However, the fact that the
screen isn't entirely bitmapped and can be read by JAWS is a plus in itself.
As always, combining this with track templates and a little sighted
assistance at the beginning will make one of the world's finest virtual
instruments more accessible than I had originally thought.
K.