[ddots-l] Re: comprehensive list of accessible soft synths and effects
- From: "Damon Fibraio" <dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:03:06 -0500
Yeah, but if we can access presets at least, then there is at least some use
from it, and of course, hot spots may be able to be created. This is the
kind of information that would be useful to have in one place.
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:00 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: comprehensive list of accessible soft synths and
effects
I think that's a good idea. A good rule of thumb is that Native
Instruments, with a few notable exceptions, is not accessible due to
bitmapped screens.
Kevin
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Damon Fibraio
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:56 AM
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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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Damon Fibraio
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