Hello all, I think these are good news that people who develop sibelius are trying to make it more accessible. A pitty that other folks seems not interested in this at all. I'll give Sibleius 7 a chance in the next weeks. I'm runing Windows 7 64 Bit, JAWS 12 and I will see what I can do with Sibelius 7 out of the box. Bye, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Penny" <stephen.penny@xxxxxxxx> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:55 AM Subject: [sib-access] Re: Sibelius 7? > 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 >> >> ----- > If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message > with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: > sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message > with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: > sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx