Anabelle, If you have a "direct line" to the folks at Audionamix the first thing I'd do is give a first person singular testimonial about what it means to you to have programs be accessible, period, and to offer examples to them of those that are and, just as importantly, are not. Most companies are becoming much more concerned with making products that have the maximum accessibility that they possibly can, and very often it's pure ignorance of what that means, both from a coding standpoint and the end-user standpoint. If ADX Trax Pro turns out to not be accessible with JAWS consider using it as the "are not" category - it drives the point home. If you happen to have a sighted assistant (as this next suggestion pretty much requires it) you might try to create a live screen capture video of JAWS interacting with their product (or not interacting, as the case may be) with an online screen recording tool such as the one at either showmore.com or apowersoft.com. There really are times where a picture, or in this case a video, is worth a thousand words.
Then, if they show an interest in pursuing this, I would encourage them to actually get in touch with Freedom Scientific for JAWS, AI Squared for Window-Eyes, and nvaccess for NVDA (which is open source and actually promotes accessibility testing as part of its website). All of these entities know what is required for their software to successfully interact with other programs and I would imagine they'd be more than willing to share the essential design features required to make a program "play well" with accessibility software. There's nothing like going to the source (and it's in the business interests of the accessibility software makers to try to have as many other third party programs as is humanly possible "play well" with their products). Direct advocacy like you're proposing is more valuable in demonstrating your point than you can ever know. Even though accessibility is becoming more and more important, this helps to drive home the point as to precisely why. Brian
