Re: guitar lessons with JAWS
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:41:10 -0700
hi,
I do play guitar, but learned to do that when I was sighted. So far as I
know, most printed or online instructional methods make important use of the
visual, unfortunately, in ways for which there isn't any screen reader
solution. I'd say the person should explore to see if there might be
something that's entirely just speech or text perhaps with musical examples
played, but that doesn't really make much sense to me.
The thing is that, never mind the fact that some online guitar teaching uses
videos so the student can imitate what the teacher does with his or her
hands. That's obviously useless if you can't see it. But the more common
traditional feature of written guitar teaching involves two graphical
elements, neither of which can be spoken in the way we think of Jaws doing.
One is called tablature, which is a series of illustrations of symbols and
things that represent fingering positions and more. That's as specialized a
system as, say, Braille.
The other thing that often is used in teaching basic guitar are chord
diagramsharts. Again, there isn't any way a screen reader could "see" such a
thing. A chord shown this way would be a drawing of just a few frets of the
guitar neck with lines for where the strings lie across the frets, with dots
and special notations to indicate which finger goes where on the strings to
produce this chord.
Neither of these types of symbols can be interpreted with a screen reader,
at all. I don't even know if there's any method of teaching guitar to
someone who can't see the fingerboard and the strings except by showing and
telling in person, which of course works if the teacher is patient and the
student attentive.
Good luck. If you happen to discover some sort of program that actually does
work for teaching the blind guitar student, I'd love to hear about it and be
able to pass it on.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki" <amethyst17@xxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: guitar lessons with JAWS
I have a friend who is interested in taking guitar lessons using a program
purchased off the internet. He's concerned that JAWS won't work with it. I
think he's using either JAWS 7.1 or 8. Has anyone had experience with this
kind of thing, and if so, can you recommend a course he can use? Thanks.
Vicki
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