[RWP] SWS for Augmenting ReaAccess

[Indigo]

Roy Sthupler has graciously offered to do the programming of our own 
custom version of ReaAccess, and I know he will look at what he produces 
with Jaws, WE, NVDA, to make sure it works with all screenreaders.



On 9/30/2011 12:15 PM, Derek Lane wrote:
> what about nvda, smaller foot print, and less sysstem intensive. Kind of
> otherwise, I wouldn't put something on my system, especially one used
> for production/development, if the program would make any number of
> unknown changes.
> Sometimes, jaws especially will make changes to the visual experience of
> windows, and the majority of us are not aware of those changes.
> However, nvda doesn't required such changes to be made.
> Another option would be to have him go to satogo.com, and get a trial
> that way. Problem with that is he only has access for a week, then the
> trial expires.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] SWS for Augmenting ReaAccess
>
>
>> I thought of that, and think I will send Tim links to ReaAccess and
>> demos of Jaws and Window-Eyes.
>> I once had a program author who took a real interest in making his
>> program screenreader friendly, and actually checked out changes he
>> made with demo screenreaders, so he could see for himself how changes
>> impacted screenreaders.
>> We may not run into them every day, but there are some real kind and
>> considerate human beings out there.
>>
>> On 9/29/2011 2:12 PM, Derek Lane wrote:
>>> Have you pointed him to the actual dll?
>>> Maybe he would find reaaccess initially interesting for more than just
>>> us blindies, as he seemed to imply in his message
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] SWS for Augmenting ReaAccess
>>>
>>>
>>>> Okay, list members, we have Tim Payne of Still Water Studios onboard
>>>> with the possibility of extending ReaAccess into STS code, which is
>>>> open source.
>>>> What that means is that if things do not go well for ReaAccess from
>>>> Ivan's group, we can get into programming ReaAccess to suit our needs.
>>>> Let's take a wait and see attitude at this point, since we may be
>>>> worrying for nothing and Ivan will come through yet with a great new
>>>> version of ReaAccess.
>>>> Even so, Jinseng has already used SWS code to correct problems in the
>>>> present version of ReaAccess, so apparently we could do both, use
>>>> ReaAccess as developed by Ivan, plus tweak it with SWS code.
>>>> I'm definitely not a programmer, so which of us is volunteering to be
>>>> RWP's SWS programmer in Chief?
>>>> Below is Tim's wonderfully kind response to my inquiry:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/29/2011 10:57 AM, Tim Payne wrote:
>>>>> Hi Indigo,
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, I will do anything I can to help your community. Please
>>>>> pass my contact info on to your group.
>>>>>
>>>>> One possibility is the option of integrating ReaAccess into the SWS
>>>>> extension. The SWS project is open source and I welcome any and all
>>>>> contributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Indigo<33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>>>> I'm one among over 50 blind musicians now using Reaper, with the
>>>>>> help of a
>>>>>> sort of control panel called ReaAccess.
>>>>>> Unfortunately for our communicating with the author of ReaAccess,
>>>>>> he's a
>>>>>> Russian speaker with no English, and it's become uncertain whether
>>>>>> he will
>>>>>> do more updates for ReaAccess, which is still buggy and incomplete.
>>>>>> One of the blind Reaper users has used your SWS script to correct
>>>>>> a few
>>>>>> things that didn't work in ReaAccess.
>>>>>> I'm no programmer myself, but I love Reaper's simplicity and
>>>>>> friendliness,
>>>>>> and I would hate to see access by blind musicians to Reaper bog down
>>>>>> at this
>>>>>> point.
>>>>>> With Reaper, ReaAccess, and any old computer it's now possible for
>>>>>> the first
>>>>>> time for a very poor musician anywhere in the world to produce
>>>>>> music, and
>>>>>> I'd like it, if possible, to stay affordible and to work well.
>>>>>> If the Russian programmer can't do more to bring ReaAccess up to
>>>>>> date with
>>>>>> Reaper 4, do you think you could help with improving ReaAccess with
>>>>>> your SWS
>>>>>> scripts?
>>>>>> If we can find a programmer in our user's group to do the actual
>>>>>> programming, do you think you could maybe provide some advice when
>>>>>> he's
>>>>>> stuck?
>>>>>> We'd appreciate help on any level at all,
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Indigo
>>>>>>
>>>>
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