[Rwp] Slightly OT Isotope Plug-ins

[Snowman]

Boy, do I ever relate to the sentaments expressed in this post.  Most of the 
barriers placed in front of us are totally unnecessary.   But, not that I 
actually know much about this, but I expect lots of apps are being written 
to try to achieve some semblence of platform independence.  So, they write 
much of it in a higher level language, and rely on their development 
environment to taylor it to the environment in which it is being installed. 
It is these frame works that are the basic problem.  QT, for example.  Is 
anything written in QT ever accessible?  It would seem like, if we could 
ever create a good link between environments like that and the screen 
readers, many things would just start falling into place, and any app 
written in that framework would work by default.  Is that naive?  I am 
interested in the opinions of screen reader developers as to why that hasn't 
happened, or whether or not such things might become possible.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "onlineeagle via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Cc: "onlineeagle" <onlineeagle at googlemail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Slightly OT Isotope Plug-ins


> Wow, so it's not as if they don't know it's inaccessible. They've made it 
> inaccessible but don't see it as an issue as such. They obviously think 
> that we are such a minority that it's fine to go ahead and create an 
> inaccessible installer, with no real concern that it will stop us from 
> installing their products. I hope their installer is nice and pretty for 
> those sighted folks. I've spoken to a lot of sighted people who are always 
> moaning about how they wish their installers weren't so ugly. Obviously 
> they desire aesthetically pleasing installers that are works of incredible 
> art. It's so frustrating that we had more accessibility years ago. I shall 
> email them too.
>
> P4s. The thing about moaning sighted people was sarcasm. I don't think 
> anyone installs a product because the installer is pretty.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 11 Feb 2016, at 09:27, Justin <justinmacleod at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is the somewhat terse response I received from the customer care 
>> team. If anyone with remote interest in any of Izotope's plug-ins could 
>> contact the team to demonstrate the strength of interest, that would be 
>> great.
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>> Thank you for contacting us!
>> Unfortunately our software is not compatible with Screen reading 
>> software. I apologize for the inconvenience!
>> I will be happy to pass your need for screen reading software support to 
>> our Product Management team for their consideration in future updates to 
>> our product line.
>> If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to let me 
>> know. Thanks!
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeshua
>>
>>> On 10/02/2016 21:10, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>> There is an NVDA addon that gives OCR based on the tesseract engine, 
>>> which isn't really that great for accuracy, but can sometimes get you by 
>>> if you can't see what you're looking for using object review or screen 
>>> review modes.
>>> I can use it to select and mute and unmute channels on my Presonus 
>>> StudioLive VSL software, which is all pretty much inaccessible, though 
>>> it's not really efficient to do so.
>>>
>>>> On 2/10/2016 1:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
>>>> Have you tried Jaws's OCR feature on the installer screens? Doesn't 
>>>> NVDA
>>>> have an oCR feature of some kind as well? Just an idea. I'm going to
>>>> grab the free delay plugin today.
>>>>
>>>> At 04:14 AM 2/10/2016, you wrote:
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> For those of you using Isotope software, how do you install and
>>>>> authorise it without sighted assistance, or isn't it possible?
>>>>>
>>>>> I downloaded one of their free plug-ins yesterday and the installer
>>>>> wouldn't speak at all and the authorisation dialogue, although I could
>>>>> get it to come up by triggering the custom UI in Reaper's effects
>>>>> dialogue, also seemed inaccessible. I couldn't enter my sereal number
>>>>> at all or any of the other details it wanted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>>>
>>>>> Justin
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