Re: School research. Topic about technics, equipment, voice over and Pro Tools for Visual Impaired audio Engineers

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 07:24:06 -0700

Hi, I myself am a totally blind student studying audio engineering and have used Pro Tools from versions 10, 11, and 12. What really needs to be worked on in my view point is training the trainers like instructors at colleges about how to effectively use this wonderful program for a totally blind user. My first instructor did some web searches on Pro Tools for the blind and told me that it did not exist and when I explained about voiceover he basically told me he had never heard of it and it was not installed on any of the school computers which I knew was not true. What needs to happen at Avid really is the developers need to get things that are accessible in other digital audio editors accessible in Pro Tools and where we don't have to hunt for presets for plugins such as the click plugin which should be totally accessible out of the box and not require a control surface to use any of the stock Avid plugins or features. Yes a control surface helps but when I was traveling and did not have one and wanted to work on a school project and wanted to fix a setting in the click plugin I was unable to. I know work is being done on accessibility but as a student we don't have time to wait for basic things to be made accessible as classes are not going to wait for one student to be made ready for the class. I am not trying to sound rude but as we as students have the educational discounts and then when we go to download from our avid.com account and the link to our educational plan is not accessible at all and after writing support and receiving nothing back as to who to contact I really think blind programmers and web designers need to be at Avid working on these issues. http://www.protoolswithspeech.com is a great resource but one improovment or addition they could make is hardware and driver installation tips for example what order to install things and should you have Pro Tools version 10 and 12 installed as I do would be great to add. I believe someone from Avid also needs to be at least monitoring this list if they are not already to at least listen to our issues and at least say that these are being looked at as not being able to download or even accessibley register a product I don't see as really good practice at all if they care about accessibility of their products. I know development takes time but not adding a text label or alt text to a link I don't think is good at all and should be looked at as soon as possible. Hopefully this answers your questions and starts some talks with Avid development about the accessibility of the web site as I would be more then willing to talk with developers on these issues if they are willing to do something about it and not just listen and ignore my suggestions. Nick Gawronski On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Aldo Larrinaga Figueroa wrote: 


Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:22:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Aldo Larrinaga Figueroa <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: School research. Topic about technics, equipment,
    voice over and Pro Tools for Visual Impaired audio Engineers


Hi guys, let me introduce myself. My name is Aldo Larrinaga and I an audio 
engineer from SAE Institute in Mexico City. Also I studied marketing four years
ago. So now I am doing a research about audio equipment accessible for blind 
mixers. What work flow do you use?, how your mix sessions are and what kind of
tricks do you use when you are using Voice Over and Pro Tools. I want to focus 
in the limitations of this software working together and what do you suggest
to make it better. 



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