cara in answer to your question.
I agree with you about this. as someone working day in day out as a
musician as well as running another business, I have high knowledge in Pro
Audio.
thanks to a technical masters in pro audio and classical music here in the UK.
I had the great privilege of working for Freedom Scientific for near 2 years
on the developer side of things as my knowledge on scripting and code work
was very useful. so some work went in. I had made attempts at making pro tools
accessible for windows with a team of other specialists. the reason why pro
tools cannot be made directly accessible for windows is because the app is
purely cross platform so the GUI is using model from the microsoft host and
from the mac host side. not just the GUI but other components of the front
end
are modeled in a hypergraphical structure level which is like sonar to a
degree but worse lol.
it would be ideal if pro tools was not cross platform in development and
they created pure level apps. one version purely for the mac system and one
purely for windows based systems. that way we could look into accessibility
with voice over.
from some reference I have in front of me from apple's accessibility and
developer teams who I communicate with these days the developer method for
an
app relies as you and I know on a back end structure and front end. if the
application is to be made cross platform in 1 app itself, the frontend and
back end encorperate multiple infrastructures which can cause problems in
instability and accessibiity.
I understand that Digidesign have a hard time and yes I do appologise
profusely about this but if you are going to make pro tools an industrial app
but
at the same time make at accessible then make it dependent to the main OS
and not cross platform.
We'll get there in the end
information I have received from apple is that logic will be assessed for
further accessibility and incorperated between the next sub update of OS X
and logic
take care all
lew
