[realmusicians] Re: [ddots-l] iZotope News: Music Technology Leader's Products Will Now Support Screen Reader Software

From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:45:08 -0000

Chris, thank you so much for contacting me in the early days of testing.  I
suggested to Chris and all involved that Tim Burgess and Victor Tsaran were
added to the beta testing team.  Special credit, must go out to Victor
Tsaran for answering a lot of the technical questions that the development
team over at Ozone were asking.  I don't personally think we would have seen
this announcement come out so quickly, had Vic not provided them with the
answers that they required so quickly.  Importantly their CTO, Jeremy Todd,
was and still is enthusiastic about adding accessibility to their product
line.  Chris, I intend to continue working with the team over at Ozone on
this.  Thanks again!



Regards, Phil Muir
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Subject: [ddots-l] iZotope News: Music Technology Leader's Products Will
Now Support Screen Reader Software


This just popped up on the news feed at Harmony-Central, so I can
post it here.

I am both shocked and pleased at this public statement from iZotope
Inc.

These guys deserve our praise, an award or two and lots of
publicity within the blind musician community.  Most of all, they
deserve lots of encouragement to continue to include us when
designing new products.  Not just that, they deserve our full
participation in testing their accessible product builds - you'll
read more about that in the below press release.

Phil, Tim and others who were in contact, along with myself, with
iZotope's Jeremy Todd, Chief Technology Officer, thank you for
participating in the early dialogues that lead to this.  and, don't
stop now! I hope you are still at least experimenting with those
demo builds of RX and Ozone, and noting any anomalous behavior for
Mr. Todd.  Or, send any reports to me and I'll forward them along.

Text of the press release follows, and please distribute this far
and wide.

PRESS RELEASE
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Music Technology Leader's Products Will Now Support Screen Reader
Software

January 18, 2010

iZotope, Inc. has announced the scheduled release of product
updates to support accessibility software for the visually
impaired. Available for download by the end of Q1 2010, the updates
will significantly expand the information made available to
accessibility software interfacing with their programs. This
endeavor is closely related to iZotope's 2010 Education Initiate.
The Initiative will support music education by donating software to
classrooms around the world. iZotope has made supporting the
community a top priority for the upcoming year.

"iZotope software has become an industry standard, and that means
it's time to commit to universal access," says CTO Jeremy Todd. "We
plan to do this with the help of the visually impaired community
itself, so we invite users of screen readers to contact us for more
information or to get involved."

The forthcoming product updates will allow commonly used screen
reader programs to work with iZotope's software on both Mac and PC
platforms. iZotope also noted that this support is a long term
commitment and will be incorporated into all subsequent releases of
products and updates.

Users interested in testing the accessibility updates may contact
support@xxxxxxxxxxx for more information. Advance copies of the
updates will be available upon request.

For more information, visit their web site at
http://www.izotope.com/.

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