Dmitri and all,
I’m assuming you’re talking about Sibelius 8.x. If so, you need to know the
following:
1. Currently, NVDA is not capable of identifying the start and end of a slur
correctly when arrowing through a score. Similarly, it is not possible to know
whether there are articulations attached to a note in a Sibelius 8.x score when
you arrow through that score. Further, NVDA does not read pitches correctly if
the score is transposed. NVDA will always read the concert pitch, even when
the written pitch is transposed. The only way the user can know whether a
score is transposed or not is to listen to what NVDA says when going to the
transposed button in the Home tab. Avid is aware of all of these
problems. There are plugins that can help one deal with some of this. But
it is really not an efficient solution and I would not migrate to Sibelius 8
unless you have been forced to move to Windows 10. In that case, it is not
possible to use Sibelius 5.25 at all and you will have to make the best of
things with Sibelius 8.5 and NVDA.
For those of you who have iPads, I strongly recommend Symphony Pro, an iOS app
whose developers have committed themselves to making the app as accessible as
possible. You can then use Music XML to migrate files between Symphony Pro and
Sibelius as desired while we wait for Avid to resolve these and other problems
with Sibelius. Symphony Pro is made by Xenon Labs and is available in the
iTunes App Store.
On May 12, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Dmitry Budnikov <6021635@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello!
Today I would like to talk about slurs in Sibelius, to share some thoughts
and, of course, to ask some questions.
It is very difficult to imagine the score without any slurs in it. Well, of
course, there are many scores with the small amout of slurs or without slurs
at all, especially those from early periods of music history but I dom't
think that somebody won't agree that slurs are almost essential part of score.
Fortunately, we can manipulate slurs and get all information about them but
don't you think that sometimes it is a real headache to check all the slurs
in your finished score, especially if it is a more or less complex one?
Recently I came up with an idea of sound indication which would indicate the
beginning and end of the slurs when moving through the score. So I have a
couple of questions regarding my idea. The first question is adressed to all
blind users of Sibelius. Do you think that sound indication of beginning and
end of the slur could be a powerfull tool to check your scores? And the
second question is for those of us who is currently working with Avid on
Sibelius accessibility. Is it possible to try and push this idea at least in
the long list of things which should be done?
Will be glad to hear any thoughts.
Dmitry
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