[ddots-l] Re: Vienna Instruments are more accessible than I thought
- From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:32:00 -0000
Vienna Instruments are more accessible than I thoughtKevin wrote: Phil,
could you refine our collective understanding of these possibilities?
Phil replied: Directly from:
www.hotspotclicker.org/
HotSpotClicker is a free set of jaws scripts which you can use in conjunction
with any application to provide increased accessibility and convenience. You
can define locations on the screen where mouse clicks need to be performed, or
where there is information you want spoken, and, if you like, associate
that location with a hot key. When you press the hot key, the click is
performed, or the information is spoken. You can also create a hot key to set
focus
on a particular control, and even implement custom tab ordering for
applications that do not honour the tab key, or override the tab handling
presently
implemented in the application.
This is especially helpful with applications which do not provide keyboard
accessibility, where mouse clicks are required, but can also be used to make
keyboard accessible applications operate much more conveniently.
It also contains a means of assigning spoken prompts to controls, similar to,
but different than the prompt manager in JAWS. This can help deal with
situations
where you tab to a control, but jaws speaks the wrong label, or speaks the
incorrect information.
Phil says: in other words, creating .hsc sets is like using Jaws to script a
plug-in but, without having to learn how to do Jaws scripting. I can knock out
an HSC set for a plug-in, quicker than someone can script it because I am not
having to write lot's of scripting code because HotSpotClicker, does all of
that in the background. HotSpotClicker isn't the answer to everything though.
For example, you may wish to use HotSpotClicker in conjunction with some Jaws
scripting, as for example, Tim Burgess has with the MOTU QMix concel. Tim
hasn't released the .HSC set for that yet though, as he wants to refine it a
bit more. Having said that, I have scene Tim's .hsc set in action in the QMix
concel and it works really well.
Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
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