Hello everyone. I am a drummer that is blind and have been working with other manufacturers software to make it accessible for blind and visually impaired musicians. We use screen readers such as Jaws or NVDA for Windows, and Voiceover on Mac systems to use our computers and even our mobile devices. Myself, and a programmer from Germany who goes by the name of AZ worked together over the past year and a half and developed an NVDA add-on called SIBIAC. WIth this add on, we are aiming to make software accessible, that normally is not possible. The add-on is free to download and use with the free NVDA screen reader and with this add-on, we have been able to successfully implement the use of EZMix 2. However we want to expand the toontrack library of software to include ez Keys, ezdrummer and/or SUperior Drummer. The tricky bit is that with the drum packages, the interface changes for the different kits and products in which is downloadable, however we may have a solution for that that will work in SD2, but not sure since we don’t have it, nor SD3. We are wanting to know if you guys would be on board about helping us make this possible. We have had success with competition software and we would love to use your product since with the ez mix success, we figured we will definitely reach out and try and bring more of Toontrack’s products to the blind and visually impaired community.
The Toontrack Product Manger is accessible via OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and works well. I myself own EZ Mix 2 and 8 expansions for it, and I wouldn’t have even thought about purchasing it but since it’s now accessible, I am happy to know I can use it and do not regret my purchase.
You can watch a demonstration of a pre-alpha version of me using ezmix 2 in this video:
