[RWP] Fw: [midi-mag] Accessibility Campaign

[Roy Shtupler]

hi Rene
do you have special hsc sets or some other means of accessing items in rmx?
do you use the Chaos and time designer features?
thanks a lot
Roy.
www.soundclick.com/tzackeek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Kaaij" <kaaijmusic at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Fw: [midi-mag] Accessibility Campaign


> Hi all,
>
> Just a short note about Spectrasonics, it's possible to work with their 
> plugins. I bought Stylus Rmx, Trilian and Omnisphere and work with them 
> everyday. You only have to be a little creative, but that's the case with 
> some more plugins that I use. I emailed with jonathan of Spectrasonics 
> some months ago and he told me that there are no plans for making their 
> plugins accessible with Voiceover at the moment. on windows they work well 
> enough to use them on a daily basis anyway...
> I also think that people have to realize that the group of blind users is 
> relatively small, so I can understand that developers can't always focus 
> on accessibility in this case, seen from a commercial point of view. So 
> let's not focus on what isn't accessible, but let's focus on what IS 
> accessible. It's a lot more than you would probably think, especially on 
> Windows.
> The Physical Modeling Collection from Applied Acoustics is really 
> accessible and their authorization system works very fast, to mention 
> one...
> Rene
> Op 10 mei 2011, om 18:23 heeft Roy Shtupler het volgende geschreven:
>
>>
>> www.soundclick.com/tzackeek
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maik Brodnicki" <maik at brodnicki.biz>
>> To: <midimag at midimag.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:01 PM
>> Subject: [midi-mag] Accessibility Campaign
>>
>>
>> Dear Music and Midi Fans,
>>
>> I am writing to you from a German sonar list in order to draw your 
>> attention to a campaign that you might be interested in.
>>
>> If you would like to contact us, please sign up at blindsonar at ml4free.de.
>>
>> Some time ago, we had launched a mailing campaign in which we informed 
>> manufacturers of our problem of not being able to use many of the 
>> plugins. Unfortunately, the result of the campaign was rather poor.
>>
>> This was obviously because only one e-mail was sent, making it impossible 
>> to ascertain how many people are actually interested in this subject. 
>> Thus, we thought of compiling a list of plugins that we are interested in 
>> and whose manufacturers we could write to. If everyone were to write a 
>> personal e-mail, the manufacturers would see how many there are who would 
>> like to have accessible plugins. Spectrasonics, for example, mentioned 
>> that they are planning to make Omnisphere accessible in a future update. 
>> Now we are looking for others who would like to join us in order to 
>> increase the chances of getting accessible plugins. I would greatly 
>> appreciate your participation in the campaign. Since the introduction of 
>> Voiceover, the high level of awareness to this screenreader and to the 
>> term "accessibility" among manufacturers has greatly increased our 
>> chances. Further below, you will find a list of manufacturers along with 
>> their support e-mail addresses or the forum thread under which you
> can contact them.
>>
>> You will also find a standard text (separated from the other text with an 
>> asterisk) that you can send to the support teams as it is.
>>
>> Please also post other manufacturers with e-mail addresses in your or our 
>> blind sonar list and write letters to these, too.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps you could also distribute this text in other mailing lists.
>>
>> And do not forget: the more people participate, the greater the 
>> probability that we will soon have a number of barrier-free plugins to 
>> work with.
>>
>>
>>
>> And here is the standard text. It is written in such a way that Mac and 
>> Windows users alike can use it.
>>
>> Of course you can simply use the same text, though it might be better to 
>> use a slightly different wording.
>>
>>
>>
>> *
>>
>> Dear * Support Team,
>>
>> I am interested in ** and have a question concerning the plugin. As I am 
>> blind, I need to use aids like screenreaders. Efficient solutions are 
>> available both for Windows and for Mac. You might have heard of 
>> Voiceover, the integrated screenreader of Mac. Have your plugins been 
>> programmed as barrier-free? This would be important for me to use them. 
>> For the screenreader to be able to read the information, the plugin must 
>> contain standard elements in Windows or the cocoa framework in Mac.
>>
>> Apple has published documentation for manufacturers that shows the 
>> requirements that need to be fulfilled to make a program barrier-free.
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/OSXAXIntro/OSXAXintro.html
>>
>> And here for Windows:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/aktuell/news/show.mspx?id=msdn_de_43594
>>
>> If this is not the case, my next question would be whether anything in 
>> this line is planned for a future update?
>>
>> Looking forward to you reply.
>>
>> Yours sincerely, *
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is a list of manufacturers in which we are interested.
>>
>> Here is the list of manufacturers.
>>
>> Some of the products that are interesting for us.
>>
>> 1.
>>
>> Product: Logic Pro
>>
>> Manufacturer: Apple
>>
>> E-mail: accessibility at apple.com
>>
>> Please dont send the documentation to Apple.
>>
>> 2.
>>
>> Product: Omnisphere
>>
>> Manufacturer: Spectrasonics
>>
>> E-mail: info at spectrasonics.net
>>
>> Be sure to write to this company - an update is as good as promised!
>>
>> 3.
>>
>> Product: Motu BPM (groove plugin with huge library)
>>
>> Manufacturer: Motu
>>
>> E-mail: sales at motu.com
>>
>> The page mentioned something about accessibility. However, I have not 
>> been able to find out what that means.
>>
>> 4.
>>
>> Product: Blue, Predator, etc.
>>
>> Manufacturer: Rob Papen
>>
>> E-mail: info at robpapen.com
>>
>> A genuine synthesizer genius
>>
>> 5.
>>
>> Product: Nexus, Quadrasid
>>
>> Manufacturer: REFX www.refx.com
>>
>> Registration is necessary in order to get a ticket. However, the 
>> registration is very fast. By the way: Quadrasid emulates a C64 and 
>> sounds superb.
>>
>> 6.
>>
>> Product: Bidule, Chipsounds
>>
>> Manufacturer: Plogue www.plogue.com
>>
>> Bidule is a modular DAW, and Chipsounds is a chip emulator that emulates 
>> the sounds of the old Nintendo, Amiga, and Atari.
>>
>> The manufacturer told us that they would look into the matter if they 
>> received a sufficient number of requests.
>>
>> The accessibility thread can be found here:
>>
>> http://plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5637
>> As I said, if you post your favorite VSTs, I will write to their support 
>> teams, too.
>>
>> Two or three sentences would be sufficient.
>>
>> 7.
>>
>> Product: Valhallaroom
>>
>> Manufacturer: Valhalla DSP
>>
>> E-mail: sean at valhalladsp.com
>>
>> A hall plugin programming genius
>>
>> 8.
>>
>> Product: Kontakt, etc.
>>
>> Manufacturer: Native Instruments
>>
>> Link to the contact form:
>>
>> http://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=infosuppform
>>
>> 9.
>>
>> Product: Vienna Libraries
>>
>> Manufacturer: VSL
>>
>> E-mail: support at vsl.co.at
>>
>> Arguably the best manufacturer for orchestra instruments.
>>
>> 10.
>>
>> Product: Independence
>>
>> Manufacturer: Yellow Tools
>>
>> E-mail: support at yellowtools.com
>>
>> 11.
>>
>> Product: Wavelab 7, Halion, and Cubase
>>
>> Manufacturer: Steinberg
>>
>> E-mail: info at steinberg.net
>>
>>
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Maik
>>
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> Rene Kaaij
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