[sib-access] Update

Dear all,

Apologies for the recent absence. I?ve been busy moving the music  
access site to a new host provider and it?s been causing more problems  
than I anticipated; not least of which is the temporary loss of email.

The site has been given something of a makeover. There are still more  
changes to make but the new design makes it easy for me to post  
frequent updates to the site. There?s already a review of Sibelius 7  
and I?ll shortly be posting updates relating to Sibelius Access - it?s  
going to be a busy couple of months.

It may take a few days for everyone to be able to reach the new site.  
The URL is the same, and UK residents should already have the updated  
pages, but it may take a while for the new server details to propagate  
overseas.

At the moment I?m in the rather confusing position of emails going to  
two different servers, so you?ll have to bear with me whilst I sort  
through things, but everything should settle down towards the end of  
the week.

Regarding Sibelius 7. As I said, there?s a review on the new site
http://www.musicaccess.co.uk/2011/07/sibelius-7-review/

If you can?t reach the above link, be patient, it should start working soon.

The review covers most of the important points, but I?ll be posting  
more information over the next month about how to get around in this  
rather different looking Sibelius.

I?d also like to extend my thanks to Steven Penny for fielding  
questions, not to mention all the folks at Sibelius for the work  
they?ve done on this latest version.

There are a couple of points I?ll address here since some of you may  
not be able to reach the new site yet.

There will be a release of Sibelius Access for Sibelius 6 next week.  
There are still some users who will need access to this older version,  
especially those who are bound by Windows XP, can?t afford the  
upgrade, or who can?t persuade  those who control their computer  
systems to let them upgrade. There?s also the fact that Sibelius 6 is  
now extremely accessible, and some of the more advanced features which  
have not yet been made accessible in Sibelius 7 will only be available  
through the previous version.

I already have some code for Sibelius 7 which I had to write in order  
to properly explore the new interface, and I hope to release an  
emergency JAWS fix for that version towards the end of the month, but  
the full support for Sibelius 7 will not be available until sometime  
in September. It?s worth mentioning that Sibelius Access 6 contains a  
lot of advanced features for navigating in the score, and a lot of  
very detailed descriptions of items not previously supported, and that  
these new features were designed with the need to make the upgrade to  
Sibelius 7 in mind. There?s also been a lot of work done to ensure  
that non-English languages can be more easily supported.

Finally, you should all keep an eye on the music access site because  
there will be quite a lot happening over there soon.

Regards,

Dan Rugman

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