Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:05:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Aldo Larrinaga Figueroa <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: School research. Topic about technics, equipment, voice over and Pro Tools for Visual Impaired audio EngineersHi Nick! I logged in this community reading an article about Slau. I am totally agree with you about the trainers teaching Pro Tools and VoiceOver. I just begin my study research and found amazing facts about visual impairment and blindness people. Add the link of one of these reviews http://www.researchgate.net/publication/5284206_Imagery_and_spatial_processes_in_blindness_and_visual_impairment The fist supposition was sight problems increase other senses, doing a little research and knowledge from T.V documentary and others shows it looks to be true, so my next supposition was “So if I’m assuming blind mixers have a better trained hearing sense, because all their world go around on it, How they work in box? And I quickly find out all the process and limitations actually Voice Over and Pro Tools compound have. You gave me a new goal to study too Nick, about Avid Trainers and their skills for teach both software’s working together, its and interesting topic too. What do you think about Voice Over on IPad or IPhone, I mean it looks than using a Touch Screen is easier and quickly, and the first product I think is the Slate Pro Audio Raven Controller using Voice Over. Thanks again for the feeding!! El domingo, 14 de junio de 2015, 9:23:42 (UTC-5), Nick Gawronski escribió: 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
Hi, I myself use Android devices as I like the openness of Android and
not the closedness of Apple devices. I think the touch screen for a
blind person is a great thing but think some devices should still
contain hardware keyboards as an option for users who don't use a touch
screen usually I find it is because of lazyness rather then wanting to
learn something new. Nick Gawronski
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