[ddots-l] Re: comprehensive list of accessible soft synths and effects

That'd be great. I've noticed that the higher end you get with a softsynth, the 
less accessible it is with jaws.

Omar Binno

www.omarbinno.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Damon Fibraio 
  To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx ; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:56 PM
  Subject: [ddots-l] comprehensive list of accessible soft synths and effects


  Do we have any kind of comprehensive list of soft synths that work with 
screen readers like Jaws or windoweyes? If not, maybe it is time to make one 
and put it on a web site somewhere. I know that some soft synths are accessible 
with caketalking or through hot spots and these can certainly be distinguished, 
but in messing around, there are some synths where we can at least get to the 
presets, some synths where we have full access and some where we have none at 
all. I am getting more into this and with many synths not having a downloadable 
demo to try, we'll never know until the shrink rap is broken, and then we are 
stuck. I know for myself, I see a ton of synths I would like to try like a lot 
of the native instruments stuff like massive and arturia stuff and sample based 
things for pianos and electric pianos, and the like, and if we had a 
centralized resource where visually impaired people can go and say, OK, I want 
to use reactor, how accessible is it, we can give them info as best as we can, 
say, not accessible, access to presets is possible, link to scripts or hot spot 
sets that will allow for access, things like that. Would anybody want to try to 
put this together? I think it would be useful and would limit questions on 
these lists every few months. I want to extend this to effects plugins as well, 
since we use these and they present similar issues. It would prevent a lot of 
cash from being spent needlessly on things that are not accessible and we can 
even say, ok, reactor doesn't work with jaws, but this soft synth does, etc. 
Any takers in this endeavor? I am getting heavily into soft synths and want to 
find the ones that we can use and avoid the ones we can't, and tI know this 
list would narrow things down for me a lot.

   

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