[sib-access] Re: Ideas window appears to be inaccessible.
- From: "Jeanine Mooers" <jmmreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:12:47 -0700
Dave. Unfortunately, I don't have any vision, so I wouldn't be able to tell
you how it is set up, but thank you for your interest.
Jeanine
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From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:03 AM
Subject: [sib-access] Re: Ideas window appears to be inaccessible.
> Jeanine ,
>
> Very likely not scripted. Depending on how much it depends on graphics to
> be
> usable, it may not be accessible. Do you have enouhg sight to know how its
> set up?
>
> I'll see if I can give it a try myself, but never thought to use it before
> now. It does sound like a nice feature to explore.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeanine Mooers" <jmmreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:58
> Subject: [sib-access] Ideas window appears to be inaccessible.
>
>
> Hello, all. In the past week, I downloaded and installed Sibelius 5.2.5
> and
> Sibelius Access. In my beginning exploration of Sibelius, I found that the
> ideas window appears to be inaccessible. In fact, Sibelius Access seems to
> skip over the ideas window entirely even when it is open. I was
> disappointed
> in this because I was hoping to audition the built-in ideas to satisfy my
> curiosity and to consider them in future compositions, which leads to an
> obvious question, especially for Dan Rugman: Do you have any plans to make
> the ideas feature of Sibelius 5.2.5 fully accessible in the future? I feel
> that this would be a very useful feature to have full access to at times
> when a composer has a fragment of music in his or her head that needs to
> be
> captured so that it is not lost. Note that, as the ideas feature currently
> is, even if I am able to capture an idea from a composition for later use,
> it appears that I won't be able to play it without sighted assistance, let
> alone, possibly,
> edit it, copy it and paste it into a score. In other words, I wonder if
> there is a way to script the ideas feature so that a blind composer can
> use
> and work with it in the same way they would work with a score, for
> example,
> by moving through the list of ideas using the up and down arrow keys,
> pressing the space bar to play each one as it is selected and using
> control+c and control+v to copy and paste into a score. The same playback,
> note input and editing functions should be available via keyboard as they
> are when working with entire scores. I would like to know if any or all of
> this is possible. I don't know how to write JAWS scripts, but I would be
> happy to offer input based simply on my experience as a blind computer
> user.
> Thank you for considering my suggestion.
> Jeanine Mooers
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