Well, actually my question was a bit more easier on the one hand and harder
on the other. I just wanted to discuss if sound indication for the beginning
and end of the slur when arrowing through the score would be convenient for
somebody except me and if it's possible to include this option in the list
of future accessibility improvements. So that letter was more about possible
future then about what we have now.
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From: Kevin L Gibbs
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 8:23 PM
To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sib-access] Re: handling slurs in Sibelius
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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