Some of you might have noticed an announcement about new products from Apogee and Avid which is a collaboration between the two companies involving the Apogee Duet and Quartet bundled with Pro Tools. What might have caught your attention about this particular announcement is the fact that, for the first time, the Duet and Quartet are Windows compatible. This is good news for Windows users but potentially bad news for Mac users using VoiceOver. Apogee has traditionally been a Mac-only environment. Their Maestro software that controls their interfaces is very accessible because it's written for Mac exclusively and controls are accessible out of the gate. Having a cross-platform situation alarmed me.
I've spoken with Apogee and Avid and, although there isn't a clear answer as of yet, the situation will be examined shortly. To be clear, the products are Pro Tools specific and have their own software written by Avid to control the interfaces. Unfortunately, this all came as a surprise to the people at Avid who deal with Pro Tools and are aware of accessibility issues. It appears that there was a bit of miscommunication which actually affects the team dealing with Pro Tools on a larger scale as they were, forgive the pun, blindsided by the announcement. I've been assured that, in case of any problems with the software accessibility, Avid would make good on making sure it's accessible. Further, this does not affect the regular version of Pro Tools and it doesn't affect the regular Apogee duet and quartet interfaces. Those interfaces still use the accessible Maestro software and the interfaces work fine with Pro Tools. It's only the newly introduce Pro Tools-specific Duet and Quartet bundled with Pro Tools that use the new cross-platform software. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
