[musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt

[Mike Freeman]

Agreed. You'd probably be better off to hire and train in your own reader 
separate from your professor.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annabelle Susan Morison" <foristnights at comcast.net>
To: "'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] JAWS And Kontakt


> 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
>>
>> <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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