Well, since you're from Germany, maybe you can get some direct contact with Native INstruments. THe Kontak player is a major drawback for us, as many of the best sample libraries are only available in that format and it is virtually invisible to all screen readers at this time. Native Instruments has shown no interest in cooperating with us in this regard.
Gord-----Original Message----- From: Juergen Deines
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:01 AM To: Ddots freelist Subject: [ddots-l] ot. help Dear Music and Midi Fans, I am writing to you from a German sonar list in order to draw your attention to a campaign that you might be interested in. If you would like to contact us, please sign up at blindsonar@xxxxxxxxxxx Some time ago, we had launched a mailing campaign in which we informed manufacturers of our problem of not being able to use many of the plugins. Unfortunately, the result of the campaign was rather poor. This was obviously because only one e-mail was sent, making it impossible to ascertain how many people are actually interested in this subject. Thus, we thought of compiling a list of plugins that we are interested in and whose manufacturers we could write to. If everyone were to write a personal e-mail, the manufacturers would see how many there are who would like to have accessible plugins. Spectrasonics, for example, mentioned that they are planning to make Omnisphere accessible in a future update. Now we are looking for others who would like to join us in order to increase the chances of getting accessible plugins. I would greatly appreciate your participation in the campaign. Since the introduction of Voiceover, the high level of awareness to this screenreader and to the term "accessibility" among manufacturers has greatly increased our chances. Further below, you will find a list of manufacturers along with their support e-mail addresses or the forum thread under which you can contact them. You will also find a standard text (separated from the other text with an asterisk) that you can send to the support teams as it is. Please also post other manufacturers with e-mail addresses in your or our blind sonar list and write letters to these, too. Perhaps you could also distribute this text in other mailing lists. And do not forget: the more people participate, the greater the probability that we will soon have a number of barrier-free plugins to work with. And here is the standard text. It is written in such a way that Mac and Windows users alike can use it. Of course you can simply use the same text, though it might be better to use a slightly different wording. * Dear * Support Team, I am interested in ** and have a question concerning the plugin. As I am blind, I need to use aids like screenreaders. Efficient solutions are available both for Windows and for Mac. You might have heard of Voiceover, the integrated screenreader of Mac. Have your plugins been programmed as barrier-free? This would be important for me to use them. For the screenreader to be able to read the information, the plugin must contain standard elements in Windows or the cocoa framework in Mac. Apple has published documentation for manufacturers that shows the requirements that need to be fulfilled to make a program barrier-free. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/OSXAXIntro/OSXAXintro.html And here for Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/aktuell/news/show.mspx?id=msdn_de_43594 If this is not the case, my next question would be whether anything in this line is planned for a future update? Looking forward to you reply. Yours sincerely, * Here is a list of manufacturers in which we are interested. Here is the list of manufacturers. Some of the products that are interesting for us. 1. Product: Logic Pro Manufacturer: Apple E-mail: accessibility@xxxxxxxxx Please dont send the documentation to Apple. 2. Product: Omnisphere Manufacturer: Spectrasonics E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Be sure to write to this company - an update is as good as promised! 3. Product: Motu BPM (groove plugin with huge library), etc. Manufacturer: Motu E-mail: sales@xxxxxxxx The page mentioned something about accessibility. However, I have not been able to find out what that means. 4. Product: Blue, Predator, etc. Manufacturer: Rob Papen E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx A genuine synthesizer genius 5. Product: Nexus, Quadrasid Manufacturer: REFX www.refx.com Registration is necessary in order to get a ticket. However, the registration is very fast. By the way: Quadrasid emulates a C64 and sounds superb. 6. Product: Bidule, Chipsounds Manufacturer: Plogue www.plogue.com Bidule is a modular DAW, and Chipsounds is a chip emulator that emulates the sounds of the old Nintendo, Amiga, and Atari. The manufacturer told us that they would look into the matter if they received a sufficient number of requests. The accessibility thread can be found here: http://plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5637 As I said, if you post your favorite VSTs, I will write to their support teams, too. Two or three sentences would be sufficient. 7. Product: Valhallaroom Manufacturer: Valhalla DSP E-mail: sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A hall plugin programming genius 8. Product: Kontakt, etc. Manufacturer: Native Instruments Link to the contact form: http://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=infosuppform 9. Product: Vienna Libraries Manufacturer: VSL E-mail: support@xxxxxxxxx Arguably the best manufacturer for orchestra instruments. 10. Product: Independence Manufacturer: Yellow Tools E-mail: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11. Product: Wavelab 7, Halion, and Cubase Manufacturer: Steinberg E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Yours sincerely, PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! 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