Theres a guy at the rnib working to make it better although its not perfect. I'm not sure if he's publisising that he's doing stuff with it so i'm not sure what I can say.
I'll get in contact with him. On 20/10/2009, Scott Chesworth <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Dan et al, > > The most recent version of Logic I've been able to investigate was 9. > Off the top of my head that's still the latest version. So far as I > could tell there wasn't a single accessibility improvement over the > last update to version 8, which was a bit disheartening. As things > stand, with a good control surface and a lot of determination, you > could probably survive day to day in Logic, but there's bound to be > things that you'll do without feedback, workarounds for some and plain > no way of doing others. Personally I wouldn't dare use this sketchy > approach in a professional capacity when I'm working on someone elses > time, hence the only reason my Mac still has Windows on it to fire up > Sonar. Regardless of whether you'd be using it at a pro level or not > though, paying out the type of money you'd need too for a good control > surface on top of the price of Logic seems like madness currently. > > I've discussed the current and hopefully future improvement of > accessibility at length with accessibil...@apple.com, and so far it's > been trickier than getting blood out of a stone lol. They seem to be > classing access to existing features as a new feature in itself, hence > in there view this falls under the usual Apple strategy of saying > nada, nothing, zip. Purely my oppinion, but my guess is that half of > the reason for this is that they know about as much as we do, IE not > much, about whether and when things will move forward. > > For now probably the best any of us can do is to express an interest > to Apple. While the Digidesign improvements are still at too much of > an early stage for anybody apart from Slau and perhaps a few others to > know much, it probably wouldn't do any harm to slip in a reminder that > a third party company is making a concerted publicised effortt and in > all likelyhood is going to have a usable product with VO first. > > Just IMHO again, but access aside, I'd say Digi have the better > product currently. That's good news for you and I, in spite of how > frustrating the waiting game undoubtedly is. > > Hth > Scott > > > > Dan Eickmeier wrote: >> Is Logic at least sort of accessible? Or totally not at all? >> On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: >> >> > >> > I'd also like to express my interest in any developments concerning >> > Logic and any other music production software being made accessible. >> > It would certainly be nice to actually have a choice when looking at >> > all the software that is out there. I'm quite interested to see what >> > progress DigiDesign makes with Pro Tools. Maybe this can be used as a >> > catalyst in order to get other companies to follow suit. If more >> > blind musicians show that if work is done for accessibility, there >> > will be a response, maybe more companies will realize the benefits... >> > Just my thoughts. >> > >> > Kevin Gibbs wrote: >> >> JPR, >> >> Like you, I'm very interested in the potential for accessibility >> >> with >> >> Logic and VO. Unfortunately, think about how long it took Apple to >> >> make >> >> iTunes accessible. That's their flagship application and it took >> >> years. >> >> Logic serves a very small market compared with iTunes and it will >> >> take even >> >> longer. That said, I'm certainly hoping that Logic becomes >> >> accessible just >> >> so that there's an option on the Mac side for MIDI based composers. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe >> >> Rykiel >> >> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:25 AM >> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> >> Subject: logic >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> as a musician, I've always wondered why Apple has made so few >> >> efforts to >> >> make logic accessible to us. After all, logic belongs to Apple >> >> doesn't it. >> >> I'm of course appreciate Digidesign's attitude regarding >> >> accessibility, but >> >> logic is much cheaper and doesn't require extra hardware except for >> >> a good >> >> soundcard. With snow leopard and Apple's recent accessibility >> >> improvements, >> >> I imagined logic would be one of their first goals, taking the >> >> number of >> >> potential blind users into account. >> >> Even garage band, which is not quite professional enough but still >> >> usable >> >> for starters, has accessibility problems. >> >> What is the logic in all this? >> >> Cheers, >> >> JPR >> >> >> >> http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel >> >> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> > > > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: bmustillr...@gmail.com msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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