[ddots-l] Re: Sibelius: New Ownership
- From: "Kevin L. Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:06:04 -0800
For the record, and trust me on this, there is a Sibelius 5 coming.
Fear not. David Pinto will be in the loop on the beta cycle which has
not begun yet. There's no point in scripting Sibelius 4 because 5 is
coming. Tehre will be a Sibelius Speaking 5. We can work with 3 and
those who have 4 can export to 3 when necessary. It's a pain but better
than nothing.
Incidentally, Dave, Digi Design now owns Sibelius. So Sibelius
will be around for the long haul.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dave Carlson
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 1:15 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Sibelius: New Ownership
Listening to all the concerns over scripting the
next generation of Sib Speaking, I think we should all be focusing some
of our concern and entreaties to the company
who now owns the rights to Sibelius. For all we know, the
next version coming out may be totally different or even
non-existent.
Something that Dancing Dots would need to consider (and I'm
sure already have) would be to negotiate a contract with the
new company (wish I remembered their name) so that any
last accessible version of Sibelius could be distributed to customers
with any new version of Sib Speaking, to ensure
our continued access to the latest or final release.
We may already be at the end of the road, and only just a
matter of the new owners telling us to go look somewhere
else?.
As to older versions of Sib Speaking and any upgrades
Jeanine , that is something that Dancing Dots should be able
to remedy,
given that you made the original purchase.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: <JMMReno@xxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: January 28, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Sibelius4
I am writing to express my disappointment and dismay that
Sibelius Speaking
will not be upgraded for use with Sibelius 4. While the
solution suggested by
others on this list, namely switching back to Sibelius 3,
may be feasible, it
is unacceptable in my view. For one thing, I have never
upgraded to Sibelius 3
and I no longer have access to Sibelius Speaking 1.3 and
Sibelius 2, having
mistakenly deleted the setup program for SS 1.3 from my old
computer, not
anticipating the need to transfer it to a new computer. Although I
appreciate the hard work and creativity of David
Pinto and others
in developing Sibelius Speaking, I have often thought that
the ultimate
solution would be to develop an application that would
evaluate mainstream software
to determine its accessibility for visually impaired users,
then automatically
make the necessary adaptations. In the meantime, one
possible solution might
be for one developer to devote work to writing JAWS scripts
for one
application and its upgrades. For example, one person can be
responsible only for
Sibelius Speaking and another could be responsible for Cake
Talking. Or perhaps the
development of all JAWS scripts could be a collaboration of
several
programmers. In either case, I strongly feel that visually
impaired computer users
deserve the same timely access to mainstream software as
sighted users, and I urge
Mr. McCann, Mr. Pinto and others concerned with the
development of Dancing
Dots products to carefully and seriously consider the
suggestions that I and
others have made in order to prevent this sort of situation
from arising again.
Jeanine Mooers
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