Hello I'm blind but wanting to use pd for making moduler music. I am using the NVDA screen reader. I can see the menu bar but not the main ui to select audio devices or midi devices or any settings. I also can't see to connect the boxes. Is there anything you guys can do ore help me with? I really like the video's I'm finding on this but I want to be able to try them out for my self.
Hi Seth, great to get your message. You might have had already researched that, but there are computer music languages that are entirely text based and which might make good alternatives for visually impaired people. Csound and Supercollider come to my mind here.
Perhaps this helps as well.
P
- seth hurst hurstseth405@gmail.com [2019-08-04 12:57]:
Hello I'm blind but wanting to use pd for making moduler music. I am using the NVDA screen reader. I can see the menu bar but not the main ui to select audio devices or midi devices or any settings. I also can't see to connect the boxes. Is there anything you guys can do ore help me with? I really like the video's I'm finding on this but I want to be able to try them out for my self.
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Hi Seth
This is a really exciting idea. I have no experience with this, but since Pd writes patches as text files, maybe it’s possible to write a text-based patching front-end. A friend of mine once wrote a Pd patch generator in Pd. I’m going to get in touch with him and see if he has any insight.
Cheers Dafydd
On August 4, 2019 at 12:56:15 PM, Peter P. (peterparker@fastmail.com) wrote:
Hi Seth, great to get your message. You might have had already researched that, but there are computer music languages that are entirely text based and which might make good alternatives for visually impaired people. Csound and Supercollider come to my mind here.
Perhaps this helps as well.
P
- seth hurst hurstseth405@gmail.com [2019-08-04 12:57]:
Hello I'm blind but wanting to use pd for making moduler music. I am using the NVDA screen reader. I can see the menu bar but not the main ui to select audio devices or midi devices or any settings. I also can't see to connect the boxes. Is there anything you guys can do ore help me with? I really like the video's I'm finding on this but I want to be able to try them out for my self.
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Hi Seth,
I had to search "NVDA" and it seems you must be using Windows. I'm curious what you mean when you say that you can see the menu bar but not the audio device settings. Is this an incompatibility between NVDA and Tcl/Tk? Is there something that the developers of Pd must do so that NVDA can render the Audio Settings for the blind? There are some blind users on the Linux Audio User mailinglist, so I assume it works with the screen reader frameworks for Linux.
Max
On 04.08.19 12:51, seth hurst wrote:
Hello I'm blind but wanting to use pd for making moduler music. I am using the NVDA screen reader. I can see the menu bar but not the main ui to select audio devices or midi devices or any settings. I also can't see to connect the boxes. Is there anything you guys can do ore help me with? I really like the video's I'm finding on this but I want to be able to try them out for my self.
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