[sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7?
- From: Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx>
- To: "sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:20:47 -0500
Let us know.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Lutenitsa <lostlamb@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think these are good news that people who develop sibelius are trying to
> make it more accessible.
> A pitty that other folks seems not interested in this at all.
>
> I'll give Sibleius 7 a chance in the next weeks.
> I'm runing Windows 7 64 Bit, JAWS 12 and I will see what I can do with
> Sibelius 7 out of the box.
> Bye,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Penny" <stephen.penny@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:55 AM
> Subject: [sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7?
>
>
>> Morning all,
>> Just to fill in a few details. We have tried to add some basic
>> accessibility support to the new version of Sibelius, after many years of
>> discussions with Dan and others. We neither wished nor intended to make
>> this a substitution for Dan's amazing work - apart from anything else we
>> simply don't have the knowledge that he has.
>>
>> I'm afraid there is no support for Voiceover at this time, and we have had
>> to discontinue support for Windows XP. The last time I checked the
>> application did start on XP, but the playback system may well not work.
>> One thing I would add is that the new sounds library is very good, but
>> does require a significant amount of system resources, so may not sit
>> happily alongside JAWS in this respect.
>>
>> Dan has spent some time making me aware of ways this can be improved, and
>> I know that one of these is by us providing some form of additional
>> information to support Sibelius and screenreaders.
>>
>> If you want to give it a try, you can download a copy and run it on a time
>> limited trial - the url is
>> http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/download/get.pl?com=sh&prod=sibdemo.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Stephen Penny
>>
>> Software Developer
>> Avid Technology
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin L Gibbs
>> Sent: Wed 7/27/2011 10:59 PM
>> To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7?
>>
>> Gord,
>> Even if the library isn't accessible, simply having faith in the
>> assignment of staves to timbres will be good enough. After all, you don't
>> need to edit samples in a notation program. All you have to do is come
>> close, sonically.
>> IMHO,
>> Kevin
>> On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Wow, this really sounds like what we've been waiting for. It would
>>> really
>>> be cool if it works with voice over for the mac. And finally they got
>>> off
>>> their high horse and are supporting full xml import/export. I wonder
>>> though
>>> if the sample library will be accessible to us. But hey, it is certainly
>>> worth $149 for the upgrade. Maybe Dan was getting insider info and
>>> that's
>>> why he was holdingoff on scripts for sib 6. Of course, we all know that
>>> one
>>> person's definition of accessible is different than another's but we can
>>> only hope for the best.
>>> Gord
>>>
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