At present, through my knowledge on this area from the past to now, Finale will not nor has ever been accessible to blind users on the mac platform. this is the same for sibelius and other mainstream applications on the market today.
the reason for this is rather simple.. The way most score programs work is through a use of graphics as a score reference and in some cases, score fonts, for a screen reader like voiceover to be able to understand a scoring application means an in depth coding, complete application rewrite and an engine to work with voiceover to handle score objects as a kind of dictionary so to speak. say, as an example you wanted access to a musical score by bach, you want to know each function of the score, from key and meter, to repeats, slurrs and so much more. the screen reader would have to interact with a window layout and then handle a dictionary engine for the graphics or score fonts to have a spoken meaning, to be interacted with where applicable or to be studied. then there is also the issue of braille output to a display. this means a little more work creating a transition between the application's own language, the standard music language and braille language. This is something I have had serious issues and concerns with over many years. At present, the only way to score blind is either using scoring software called "goodfeel" for windows in conjunction with other software by "Dancing Dots" who by the way used to make scripts for sibelius 3 which worked with JAWS 5.1 and above. from what I hear, there is a developer working on scripts for the latest versions of sibelius. I however don't have the reference to comment on the work, etc. this is the only way to do it. so if you're a mac owner, your best way is either fusion or bootcamp with windows running, JAWS and either goodfeel or sibelius. it is worth noting however that sibelius does not support braille output, though it does support speech based output for most functions. it is to my understanding an evolving project. lew On 4 Mar 2012, at 21:05, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Hello All: > Dos anybody know if Finale can be used in Mac in an accessible way, or is > there an alternative to be able of doing advanced music scores editing? > Thank you very much for your ideas! > > SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T. > MACNETICOS, APPLE Y ACCESIBILIDAD A TU ALCANCE. > EN TWITTER: @macneticos > NUESTRO BLOG EN: > www.macneticus.blogspot.com > Y EL PODCAST EN:` > http://macneticos.libsyn.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
