[RWP] SWS for Augmenting ReaAccess

[Roy Shtupler]

even easier , point him to NVDA; no need for complex installations , mirror 
drivers etc.
best
Roy.
www.soundclick.com/tzackeek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:07 PM
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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