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S. Massy wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:44:33PM -1000, david wrote:

>> Julien Claassen wrote:

>>

>>>  One thought, I think it might be more of a problem in the open

>>> software world, not knowing about needs for such special groups as

>>> blind, colour-blind or other people. There are so many guidelines,

>>> ISO ones and other EU and US goverment ones, some more specific,

>>> other not so. But as Massy pointed out: We are only 0.x%, in the

>>> field of music maybe a little more.

>> I'd say a little more. And many of the blind in music are highly

>> successful, so you'd think there'd be more interest in the world of

>> music-making software being accessible to the blind.

>>

>> Of course, someone like Stevie Wonder can afford to pay a lot more

>> for such accessibility than others ...

> The ultimate accessibility: hire a sighted person. :)

Actually, I'd think that if you have your DAW set up so you're

interacting with it solely through hardware controls, you'd have the

best accessibility: you listen to the sound, modify and control it via

the hardware. I just think there's no need whatever for a musician to

require anything visual in order to make sound. I've seen too many blind

musicians who are amazingly gifted partly because their brains have

shifted visual-processing neurons to audio-processing.
--

David

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