[sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7?
- From: "Stephen Penny" <stephen.penny@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:55:51 +0100
Morning all,
Just to fill in a few details. We have tried to add some basic accessibility
support to the new version of Sibelius, after many years of discussions with
Dan and others. We neither wished nor intended to make this a substitution for
Dan's amazing work - apart from anything else we simply don't have the
knowledge that he has.
I'm afraid there is no support for Voiceover at this time, and we have had to
discontinue support for Windows XP. The last time I checked the application did
start on XP, but the playback system may well not work. One thing I would add
is that the new sounds library is very good, but does require a significant
amount of system resources, so may not sit happily alongside JAWS in this
respect.
Dan has spent some time making me aware of ways this can be improved, and I
know that one of these is by us providing some form of additional information
to support Sibelius and screenreaders.
If you want to give it a try, you can download a copy and run it on a time
limited trial - the url is
http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/download/get.pl?com=sh&prod=sibdemo.
All the best
Stephen Penny
Software Developer
Avid Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin L Gibbs
Sent: Wed 7/27/2011 10:59 PM
To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7?
Gord,
Even if the library isn't accessible, simply having faith in the assignment of
staves to timbres will be good enough. After all, you don't need to edit
samples in a notation program. All you have to do is come close, sonically.
IMHO,
Kevin
On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
> Wow, this really sounds like what we've been waiting for. It would really
> be cool if it works with voice over for the mac. And finally they got off
> their high horse and are supporting full xml import/export. I wonder though
> if the sample library will be accessible to us. But hey, it is certainly
> worth $149 for the upgrade. Maybe Dan was getting insider info and that's
> why he was holdingoff on scripts for sib 6. Of course, we all know that one
> person's definition of accessible is different than another's but we can
> only hope for the best.
> Gord
>
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