[musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt

Sat Jan 2 14:57:03 UTC 2010

I've thought of working with someone who can see, but that's not always
easy, as the person I've designated to work with me, my music teacher Markus
Johnson, is not always available. 

-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 3:21 PM
To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt

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
>
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>
> 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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