the company is called pcPower , they specializes for computers for audio and video applications. haven't yet had to use my DoubleTalk for low-level access , just Jaws and WinEyes. Jaws sometimes embeds control strings into the regular text e.g "...TripleTalk..." etc; so either turn the device off , then back on , or switch to another synth in Jaws , then back to DoubleTalk. cheers Roy. http://elephant-dolphin.bandcamp.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Belle To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:09 PM Subject: [realmusicians] Re: Sonar x2a accessibility Sometimes we have to look for them. Most of the newest stuff is built around the z77 mobo right now, and I am not sure that one has serial support or not. What company does that kind of thing over there? Anothe option might be to get native serial support from an add in card, do you use your doubletalk for low level access too? If not then you can get by with a usb to serial adapter. Jaws never did fix their serial support so I use it in usb mode, have you figured out a way to make it work right for you with any settings? ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy Shtupler To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 11:26 AM Subject: [realmusicians] Re: Sonar x2a accessibility am using serial doubletalk here on my desktop as well. hope the equivalent to Jim Rosebery here in Israel also have serial ports on their desktops built for daw purposes. cheers Roy. http://elephant-dolphin.bandcamp.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Belle To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 3:56 AM Subject: [realmusicians] Re: Sonar x2a accessibility That's great. I've been using nvda and sometimes jaws exclusively to do sonar now. The one;l thing I'll give window-eyes even though it's experiencing an all time low is it's great support for hardware synths. I like to use a serial based no driver necessary hardware synth for sonar as it tends to stop a lot of issues with other audio devices running from being a problem. Jaws serial support sucks, though the usb for the tripple talk works well. I think these hardware synths are going to go away eventually though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy Shtupler To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx ; realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:00 PM Subject: [realmusicians] Sonar x2a accessibility here's the info from Cakewalk's site on accessibility of Sonar x2A: Accessibility enhancements SONAR X2’s power is now more accessible to vision impaired users. SONAR X2’s accessibility features, including Microsoft UI Automation, expose rich information about its UI elements, such as type, state, name, and value. With reliable access to this information, vision impaired users can use UI Automation-capable screen reader programs such as Microsoft Narrator, JAWS, NVDA and Window-Eyes to access, identify, and manipulate SONAR’s UI elements. The screen readers read aloud what's on the computer screen. am about to check it out. cheers Roy. http://elephant-dolphin.bandcamp.com