Hello everyone. My name is Gerad. I am a blind musician from the Dallas, Texas area. I am writing this post not to ask questions, but hopefully raise awareness of accessibility made possible for the EZDrummer software. Over the month of December, myself, and a couple of other people from different parts of the globe collaborated together on a project that would make Toontrack’s EZDrummer 2 and even their EZMix 2 software accessible for the Blind and the visually impaired. The name of this program, which is actually an add-on, is called SIBIAC, which is short for “Single Image Blob Interface Accessible Control” and it’s primary aim is to make software, accessible for the blind, that normally wouldn’t be. The add-on works with NVDA, which is short for Non-Visual Desktop Access; a free screen reader for the Windows platform. With SIBIAC, we have been able to successfully make EZDrummer 2 work within the DAW, Reaper, and as a standalone application in 64-bit. I have put together a video demonstration of how EZDrummer 2 will work with SIBIAC within the Windows environment. For this video, I am running the software in standalone mode.
I want to say Thank You to Toontrack for supporting this project, and hopefully soon, we will be able to bring Superior Drummer 3 to the blind community as well 🙂
