[musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Fri Jan 1 23:21:22 UTC 2010


There's no easy way. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can be used to 
convert scanned print images into text but there's no on-the-fly solution 
for program elements such as you desire.

Suggestion: have you thought of -- gasp -- employing a reader?

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annabelle Susan Morison" <foristnights at comcast.net>
To: "'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt


> I've been in contact with Native Instruments, and they say that Kontakt's
> GUI (Graphical User Interface) is based on bitmap images rather than text.
> How would you convert bitmap images to text?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sarah alawami
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:42 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
>
> Would hotspots work in this case? I don't use that contact player but 
> that's
> just a suggestion.
>
> Take care.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Annabelle Susan Morison
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:24 AM
> To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt
>
> Hi, my name is Annabelle Morison, but you can just call me Annabelle.
>
> I am a blind young woman who is a former student of Lane Community College
> in Eugene, Oregon. I studied to become an audio engineer, producer, and
> sound designer. Within six years, from September 2003 to June 2009, I took
> Music fundamentals, Music theory 1, Sight Reading and Ear Training 1,
> Keyboard Skills 1, Individual Piano Lessons, Jazz Theory, Music Technology
> MIDI-Audio 1, Music Technology MIDI-Audio 2, Music Technology MIDI-Audio
> Independent Study 1, Music Technology MIDI-Audio Independent Study 2, 
> Music
> Technology MIDI-Audio Independent Study 3, Music Technology MIDI-Audio
> Independent Study 4, Audio Engineering 1, Audio Engineering 2, Audio
> Engineering 3, and Audio Production. My studies culminated in straight 
> A's,
> and winning an award for Special Outstanding Achievement in Music
> Technology. Since my career will be based around making virtual 
> instruments
> and sample packs, I'd like to find out, how would a blind person like me
> make virtual instruments in Kontakt? In other words, how would I be able 
> to
> drag all the samples of any instrument into the Kontakt interface, then 
> map
> each note across an entire keyboard? Also, how would I save the finished
> instrument as an .nki, .nkb, or .nkm file? Would I have to have help from
> someone who can
>
>> see? On some of the buttons and controls in Kontakt, JAWS 10.0 has a
>> hard
> time reading the screens. Since a lot of the buttons and controls are 
> based
> on bitmap images rather than text, I'm beginning to realize that JAWS
> doesn't have the ability to read Bitmap image-based buttons and controls.
> So, I was wondering if there's a series of scripts for all the buttons and
> controls that would otherwise be accessed by sighted customers. I have a 
> few
> companies that you could contact, to ask about any further information on
> how to make Kontakt work with JAWS. You could contact Yes Accesible in
> Monrovia, California at 1-626-358-5750. You could contact Freedom 
> Scientific
> in Saint Petersburg, Florida at 1-727-803-8600. You can also contact T&T
> Consultancy in England at +44
>
>> 178-264-4141. You can also contact Raised Bar LTD, also in England, at
>
>> +44 182-771-9822. If you have any further information or questions for
>> +me,
> please feel free to Email me
>
>> at any time, as I check my Emails several times each day.
>
>> Thank you so much,
>
>> Annabelle
>
> <blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:foristnights at comcast.net>
> foristnights at comcast.net
>
> P.S.: Here are the specifications of my computer.
>
> Computer: Laptop
>
> Machine Type: MusicProXPC
>
> Serial Number: TW7TFCCCB8170073
>
> Internal Soundcard: Realtek HD Audio
>
> Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
>
> Engine: 32Bit Multiprocessor
>
> CPU Speed: 2.5GHZ
>
> RAM: 4GB
>
> Internal Hard Drive: 250GB
>
> External Hard Drive: 1TB
>
> Audio Interface: MOTU 896HD
>
> Mixing Machine: Radikal Technologies SAC2K
>
> MIDI Device: Roland Fantom XR
>
> Operating System: Windows XP
>
> Version: Professional 2002 with Service Pack 3
>
> Screenreader: JAWS 10.0.1167U
>
> Digital Audio Workstation: Cakewalk Sonar 8.3.1 Producer Edition
>
> Adaptive Technology: Caketalking 8 For Sonar 8
>
> Sampler Software: Kontakt 4 (Standalone and VST)
>
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