Hi
Linux has recently be mentioned by Paul, who is looking into Mac accessibility.
You can find the developer thread here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/audacity/mailman/audacity-devel/thread/CAKUg33pZy6LShCiwJ56kN%3DfdbwApuPfXETV_xxqvzQo3tdM3Bw%40mail.gmail.com/#msg35217599
Robert
2016-07-16 17:17 GMT+02:00, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@xxxxxxx>:
Hi David,
Thanks very much for this full information. I had not in mind the "align
track" (I just begin with Audacity). It's great!
I'll have a look for noise, even if I really don't understand what I
have read so far. I heard of "noise profile", etc, but I never could
remove a "acute" background I have when I use my microphone.
For accessibility work, would it help if I ?ould report the 1st
feedbacks after exploring the app? It seems you know the main problems
however, are there technically difficult to fix? I mean: if the
inaccessible widgets are GTK, just labels and patches are enough. The
same if they can be changed into GTK. But if it's wxWidgets, it's likely
more work as the dev needs to connect them to the bus accessibility. Do
xou have info about it? Is the dev paid to do this?
Anyway, even if indeed, accessibility on Linux isn't perfect, the fact
we can use keystrokes and menus is quite good. I nearly can do all the
basics. What I don't know to do is likely due to my sound skills.
Thanks for all zour work as well. If I can help for accessibility under
Linux, I'd be glad. If some money is required, let's estimate. :)
Best regards,
Le 16/07/2016 à 14:40, David Bailes a écrit :
Hi Jean-Philippe,
unfortunately, Audacity isn't very accessible on Linux. The developer
who has done nearly all the accessibility work on Audacity is not active
on the project at the moment. However, there is a developer currently
looking at the accessibility on Mac, but I'm not sure whether he'll also
look at Linux.
Probably the worst accessibility problem on Linux, is that state of a
track is not read by Orca: that is, whether it is selected, muted, etc.
Another major problem is that the time controls which are used in the
selection bar, and various other places are not read.
If you want to synchronize two tracks, you could just add silence at the
beginning of one. An alternative is to make use of the commands on the
align tracks sub-menu, which is on the tracks menu. For more details, in
the following guide there's a more advanced editing section, and in that
section there's a "time shift" sub section:
http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.1.2-Guide.html
Audacity does have effects to remove noise and so on, which are usable
without advanced audio skills. More info on these can be found in the
manual, which you can open from the help menu.
best wishes,
David.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:53 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
<mengualjeanphi@xxxxxxx <mailto:mengualjeanphi@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm blind anc CTO and trainer for Hypra, a company to make conputing
accessible for everybody through free software and training.
I am discovering Audacity on Linux environments. It seems accessible
thanks menus and keystrokes. Fortunately, as toolbars don't seem to
be.
My questions:
- is there still an accessibility dev for Audacity? Is something
planned
for Linux interface?
- I know today record, select, cut, paste and work as multitrack. But
once I've 2 tracks, how can I, 9ith keyboard, synchroniue them if
there's a slight difference between them? Should I just add a silence
on
the track I want to "push"?
- Finally, does Audacity include effects to remove noise, normalize
sounds automatically, fading, compressor etc? Is it usable without
advanced audio skills?
`hanks for your help.
Regards,
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