Phil:
You shouldn’t say this out loud, man. Microsoft is the gold standard when it
comes to accessible products they say, even though blind professionals cannot
even trust Word to draft, edit, proofread, and file a document without getting
it first checked by a sighted colleague to be sure that formatting is not weird.
Rod
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Subject: [vipaudioaccess] Re: Melodyne update news, it's not good.
Sorry to hear this. I remember that one of the top people at Microsoft has a
child who is disabled. This may be why Microsoft have elected to implement
accessibility in products. That and the fact that Google Apple etc introduced
screen readers on their platforms so no reason why Microsoft shouldn’t do that
as well. That said, Office 365 is significantly worse to use than Office 2003
which from an accessibility stand-point was excellent 😊
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Subject: [vipaudioaccess] Melodyne update news, it's not good.
Hi.
I'm passing on the information I have regarding Melodyne's latest update. My
initial thoughts were correct and Celemony have moved to a different graphics
library, hence why Jaws can no longer see any text on screen at all. I'm not
sure if this also has an impact on other solutions for Melodyne, but it's quite
clear that we're at the end of the road with this product, unless Jaws
developers can address it, or the graphics library in question can be worked on
with accessibility in mind.
Celemony tell me that the V5.1.1.003 version will be available to anyone who
requests it from them, but it won't be available via their website. This is the
last build that text can be seen on screen. The latest build (V5.2.0.006)
breaks the ability to read text and they have no plans to rectify this, as they
are now sticking with this new library, which is called Skia.
They did say they would be willing to update the version of Skia they use, if
any work with accessibility is done, as it's open source, so is available to
people to work with. Apparently, Skia is backed by Google, so I would have
thought that accessibility should be part of it's mandate to deliver that
accessibility, but this sort of stuff is outside of my knowledge and I have no
contacts who know about this sort of thing available at the moment.
I will try to contact dev's at FS or whatever they're called now, but again, I
have no direct contacts there, so I would have thought it's going to be
difficult to raise this problem with the people who need to know. If anyone
thinks they have something to offer with making Skia support screen readers, or
if someone has a contact at FS I can write to, then please get in touch:
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