Thanks for the info, Slau,
I'll try loading Sabelius on the Mac side of my machine as see what
happens. I only have version 3.0 so I don't even know if it is Leopard
compatible. What I really hope for on this Thanksgiving Day is that
Apple will be a bit more conscientious about making its own programs
accessible. Well, Christmas is coming up and it would be a great
present for Apple to us blind folks. If not, there's always New
Year's Day.
Vermont Tom
On Nov 22, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Slau wrote:
Hey Tom,
I don't believe there's a music notation program out there yet that
is VoiceOver compatible. Finale, as I understand, is supposedly
written in Coco, but I doubt it's terribly accessible. Having said
that, I haven't tried the most recent version. Now, Sibelius is
cross-platform and, the way the scripting in JAWS works with
Sibelius is that it relies on a sort of info window (I forget what
it's officially called) to determine pitch, duration and attributes,
etcetera. It's conceivable that the window might present enough
information to VoiceOver to be useable but I doubt it would be
anywhere near as efficient as Sibelius Speaking is on the Windows
side. I spoke with someone at Coda, the makers of Finale a while ago
and they didn't seem too interested in the whole accessibility
issue. Being the predominant program in music education, you'd think
they'd be more receptive but...
Having said that, Sibelius is no stranger to accessibility issues,
given the Dancing Dots solution. Maybe they'd be more receptive to
making sure it's accessible with VoiceOver.
Slau
