And then Valentines Day, my birthday, Easter then Memorial Day. LOL
On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Tom Frank wrote:
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
