[RWP] version 4.20 Up and Running User guide; in Text

[indigo]

You're right of course, in a just world we'd not be shut out, but when 
was there ever a just world.
Actually, despite what one would conclude from the mouse oriented 
manual, there are a substantial number of users in the Cockos forums who 
work entirely from keyboard shortcuts, same as  we do.
One user edits with his left hand on the qwerty keyboard while he plays 
in notes on the midi keyboard with his right,  a man after my own heart.
He even remapped the keyboard letter X to delete.
It wouldn't surprise me to discover sighted users employing ReaAccess to 
run Reaper.
One day, just for fun, I shut down ReaAccess to learn what the 
experience of barebones  Reaper was like to the earliest blind pioneers, 
and I'm very grateful for Ivan The Mysterious's work to give us ReaAccess.
The midi edit screen in standard Reaper is a mass of parameters strewn 
here and there, a hodge podge not very different from Sonar's piano roll 
view.
Actually, ReaAccess's midi edit is derived from a very little modified 
view from the sighted midi edit dialog, view 1 being a matrix view, and 
view 2 being a linear view, with midi events shown along the time line 
of a track, which Ivan realized would be not that difficult for us to use.
I'm no Polly Anna, just a pragmatist, a lifelong follower of Zen, that 
says the easiest thing in the world to change is your mind; about how 
you feel about things; certainly a hell of a lot easier than changing 
the hand we were dealt by Fate.


Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Speaking of time consuming. Here I go on a wistful ramble about unlikely
> possibilities.
> I realize it's a psychological problem, but I have always felt
> exceedingly weary of reading documentation written by sighted people,
> for sighted people. They're always talking in groovy terms about what a
> snap it is to do something that I find impossible, enhancing my feeling
> of belonging. Giving me instructions that don't relate to my paradigm,
> and it annoys me substantially, to the point that it even impedes my
> learning process. Get use to it, I always tell myself. But, I never do.
> I can't avoid the feeling that I'm just nibbling on the crumbs from
> someone else's banquit table.
> And, it inspires me to create my own banquet.
> One of the things I always thought would be cool, for example, if help
> documentation was written in such a way that the help reader would check
> to see if you are using a screen reader, and flip a little switch that
> gave you the appropriate language for your particular form of access.
> Of course, that would mean the help writers would have just that much
> more help to write, and help would be even more useless than it is.
> Still, it's an attractive idea.
>
> But, I wonder how far one would get if we chose to create an edition of
> this manual, with all the usual explanations, but all the clicky stuff
> scrubbed out, and replaced by stuff that made sense to us.
> It's a monstrously huge project, and probably won't get done, especially
> in view of tiny amounts of energy, and stuff like that.. But,
> I wonder if we divided this manual into sections, and assigned sections
> to willing editors on list, if we could successfully go off and find out
> if there are blind alternatives to what's described there, edit the
> section accordingly, and check it back into the composite project, if we
> could come up with such a thing.
> Even better if it could be done in a way that the Reaper authors would
> adopt, such that it would survive future manual additions. If help
> systems had that ability to create alternate views like that, the
> sighted guys wouldn't even know our stuff was in there. but, I don't
> think that ability exists.
>
> Anyway, just a muse. Thanks for reading.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 10:11 AM
> Subject: [RWP] version 4.20 Up and Running User guide; in Text
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>
>> True, the standard users guide is not always so useful, but I have
>> found answers in it sometimes.
>> Here it is in text, all 400 pages:
>>
>> http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka7ieq
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