[ddots-l] Re: Dancing Dots Cited in Electronic Musician Magazine, May, 2007 Issue

  • From: Mike C <m_dsmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:10:21 -0400

its about time that accessibility gets featured in a electronic magazine.

  Especially when it comes down to accessible products, IE Caketalking, and 
sonar.
    I keep on saying this over and over again, Bill, Dave, Gord, and all of you 
who have acheeved in making products accessible to the visually impaired 
persons, like myself, lets keep this going, for if it wasn't for both Bill, and 
Dave, I probabbly wouldn't be producing music today.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William R. McCann 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:03 PM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Dancing Dots Cited in Electronic Musician Magazine, May, 
2007 Issue


  Check out page 63 of the May issue of Electronic Musician for a well-written 
article on accessibility for musicians with disabilities.  It's called: 
  "Studio Solutions for Disabled Musicians" by Scott Wilkinson and 

  Joanna Cazden.   



  We're happy that the authors included our praise for some of the companies 
that have been so supportive of our work including Cakewalk, Sibelius and 
Freedom Scientific.  There's a bit of encouragement included for other 
companies we'd like to see make some progress in the area of accessibility.  
You will also find some names that may be quite familiar to you: Mike Mandel, 
Gordon Kent, David Pinto, Peter Elsea, Albert Milani and yours truly.  There 
are also a number of other interesting people who may not be so familiar to you 
and their own stories and struggles are engaging and enlightening.



  My thanks to so many of you who work every day to improve access in general.  
In particular, I applaud Mike Mandel and Gordon Kent who have been advocating 
on behalf of blind musicians at the last few annual meetings of the National 
Association of Music Merchandisers (NAMM) shows.  Their patient persistence has 
already had a number of tangible good results including this exposure to the 
mainstream music industry.  It's just really nice to be heard over the general 
din out there, isn't it?



  Regards,

  Bill

         


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