[ddots-l] Re: Accessibility for the Blind
- From: "Phil Muir" <philmuir1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:49:44 +0100
Jeff, if you haven't already done this then, you may want to sign The Raised
Bar Petition. Tim will be updating the form shortly so that we will all be able
to see how many people have signed it.
You will find the petition at:
http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm
More information below:
What's the petition for?
Raised Bar is trying to gather statistics to aid the cause of improving access
to music technology for visually-impaired people. One of the biggest obstacles
to achieving success in this area is being able to convince hardware and
software manufacturers that there is sufficient demand to warrant their
investment
in making the necessary changes.
To help us overcome this obstacle, we ask you to submit your name and email
address to our petition so that we can present meaningful numbers when we meet
with interested individuals and organisations. Any submitted names and email
addresses will only ever be used for this purpose. We're only asking for
email addresses at all because they will act as a proof that there's a person
behind the name. We will only ever divulge them to the interested bodies
unless we obtain your permission first and only then as a means of verifying
the total being presented. In addition, we will never use this information
to aid our own marketing - you are not signing up to become part of Raised
Bar's customer database.
Please only submit valid information - we're not trying to artificially inflate
the figures as this would irreparably damage our credibility with those
we are trying to encourage to help our cause.
This is your chance to help raise the bar in terms of the level of access that
we all need, so please sign up now!
Important Note
Please don't treat this form as a substitute for contacting manufacturers and
vendors directly if you have a particular issue with a product and its
accessibility.
When you do this, it helps to strengthen the case with regard to accessibility
in music technology products and gives the manufacturers valuable information
about specific problem areas. We have found manufacturers are open and do
listen to constructive feedback as you, the customer, are important to them.
Additionally, don't forget to let a manufacturer know if their product is
working well for you in accessibility terms - we all like to know if we've done
a good job and positive feedback can help encourage a development team to try
even harder in their next product cycle.
Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music and audio production
URL: www.philmuir.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Molzow
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:31 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Accessibility for the Blind
Hello David:
While in the interest of accessibility, I MIGHT have signed the petition, it
was limited to ONLY the MAC operating system. This clearly reflects the bias of
the petition designers. It leaves out the vast majority of us who work within
the Windows operating system.
Prior to losing the rest of my sight, I used ProTools in the Windows
environment. . After that, I thought I was out of the recording business for a
while, until technology caught up. I was so thankful to have products like
Sonar and CakeTalking which truly gave me back my studio. No, Sonar may not be
the recording industry system of choice, YET, but I'm very happy that we have
something to work with. I really feel that promoting a competing product on
Dancing Dots own mailing list, even through requesting petition signatures is
really in very poor taste. This is not meant as a flame, just a user opinion,
but if you'd like to continue the discussion off LIST!! my email info is
included below.
Thankyu Bill, David, Gord and the rest of your company for keeping the
recording dream alive for so many of us.
Sincerely
Jeff Molzow
jmolzow@xxxxxxx
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