My only comment here is that if a piece of software as universally available as is Reaper, the recently discussed Goldwave and even Sound Forge doesn't work with a screen-reader, there's something terribly wrong with that screen-reader. I haven't yet got around to trying Reaper under Windows but I shall do that within the next day or two. But Goldwave is certainly accessible enough except, obviously, when you're dragging the cursor over a wave form. There is no way on earth a screen-reader could possibly be expected to read a wave form as you highlight portions of it because in effect it's a graphical image. That would be a little bit like asking for accessibility in an application such as PhotoShop or Graphics Workshop. Even then, if you can get the screen-reader to at least read the status bar so that you are aware of the position you're at in terms of either a timeline or byte counter, that would certainly be better than nothing. And in theory it shouldn't be difficu lt to do that, especially with Window-Eyes. I don't know how Jaws could be configured to do that without a script, or even whether you could do it with NVDA with a configuration option which would hold. That's quite an interesting idea actually I think. I guess that when I find the time, and time is not something I have a lot of spare just now, I'll have a play around with that. In Window-Eyes, it'd probably be the work of just a couple of minutes to establish a hyperactive or float window around the status line and then have that window read out when it changes. There again you may not want that kind of verbosity in all parts of the editor, so you may need to configure multiple set files to call one another. But that's actually one area where Window-Eyes is very powerful. The fact that it can adapt to different environments within the same application is something which, to the very best of my knowledge, no other screen-reader can do without a lot of complex scriptin g. I doubt that NVDA could do it at all, if truth be told. If you know different, please by all means feel free to correct me. But let's keep any hostility out of this discussion. Remember that this is a group of people with differing abilities and backgrounds.
Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 18 Jul 2013, at 11:49, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > For Goodness sake! Reaper should be accessible enough for any Screen Reader > to work with it, certainly works with the various Screen Reader solutions I > used it with when I bothered to use it for Windows, admitedly that was quite > some time ago as I prefer to use Reaper on a Mac these days but that's > another story for another time and place <smile>. ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
