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
>> > >
> >
>


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