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From: Roy Shtupler <shtupler@xxxxxxx>
To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx, realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:09:05 +0200
hi friends
this is the response I got fro OverLoud tech support regarding accessibility.
maybe worth trying to push it on the Juce forum.
best
Roy.
http://elephant-dolphin.bandcamp.com
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From: Overloud 
To: shtupler@xxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Technical Support overloud.com/contact_us [20131118221447] - 
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Hi Roy,


unfortunately, our products currently only support a proprietary format for 
banks and presets because it must be a “cross-format” format (i.e. it should 
open in all plug-in formats: VST, Audio Unit, RTAS and AAX), while the fxp and 
fxb is specific to VST plug-ins (AFAIK).


As for the GUI, turns out the reason for which we don’t currently support 
native controls is similar: since our plug-ins need to be also cross-platform 
(Mac and Windows), we rely on a cross-platform library to build the whole 
interface. Such library works as an abstraction layer in the sense that it 
draws its own widgets rather than using the native controls provided by the 
operating system, hence the lack of support for voice-over on them.


However, the library we use (named JUCE, targeted specifically to audio plug-in 
development) is also available as an open source project and has a forum of 
very active developers who contribute to it and, last time I checked, there 
already have been requests in the direction of making it more friendly to 
visually impaired people.


As you mentioned being a computer developer yourself, maybe you could 
partecipate in the discussions on the subject in order to give some pointers to 
us developers (and the maintainer of the library too) so that we have a staring 
point. The discussion threads I mentioned are found here:


http://www.juce.com/forum/topic/support-visually-impaired


and


http://www.juce.com/forum/topic/voice-over-visually-impaired


Regards,
    Federico


OVERLOUD Support Team 
www.overloud.com

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Il giorno 18/nov/2013, alle ore 22:23, shtupler@xxxxxxx ha scritto:


  overloud.com/contact_us [20131118221447]

  Name: Roy Shtupler

  Country: IL


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  Technical Support
  hi all my name is Roy , a musician and computer developer. due to being blind 
, I use a screen reading software that lets me interact with my windows system 
via speech/Braille. am now testing the TH2 and VKFX with Reaper and Sonar. a 
big congratulation on the comprehensive list of automatable parameters; thanks 
to which we can tweak settings via Sonar/Reaper's simple parameter name/value 
format which is accessible to us. unfortunately , the native plug's interfaces 
are not accessible; therefore , we can't access the available presets , or 
manage our own ones. do the plugs also support the standard .fxp/fxb format? is 
it possible making the interface show regular text besides the bit-mapped one , 
so we could navigate it using our screen readers? I truly hope we'll work 
together to make these and your other great plugs accessible , since there are 
many blind pros who'd be really happy to use them. thanks a lot , and warmest 
regards Roy.
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