Hi Ricky and all other listers,
Thanks for your help. The reason Sabelius was willing to work with
dancing Dots to make the Windows side accessible is that Ray Charles
used Sabelius and wanted to write all of his own music.
Now, all we need is a blind musician of similar statute that uses a
Mac and we're all set.
Vermont Tom
On Nov 23, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
On 23/11/2007, at 12:50 AM, Tom Frank wrote:
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.
Tom, unfortunately Sibelius is not at all VO compatible. I just
loaded up the current version which is 5 point something under
Leopard and virtually nothing except the apple-standard menu bar and
part of the toolbar was accessible. I don't use VO myself so the
zooming it allows and the new visual interface in 5.0+ is enough
help for me, but they could certainly do better with the
accessibility part.
I'll be writing to sibelius to request they put some effort into
making Sibelius VO accessible and pointing out that there's
currently no notation-based composition programs that are VO
accessible so they'd have the market cornered if they did it - I
suggest you do the same, and everybody else who cares about it!
Regards,
Ricky
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