[ddots-l] Re: [NVDA] Re: music notation software accessible with nvda
- From: Rusty Perez <rustys.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:02:23 -0700
Thanks folks!
I was sortof afraid I was gonna get a lot of flames from my post, and,
while I do like to stir up a bit of argument sometimes, I really
didn't mean to.
I will definitely look at those options for taking a look at music
electronically.
Shawn, thanks for the vote of confidence in playing by ear.
It's funny, just yesterday I went over to the web site of the NLS and
looked in their music library for "fake books." I found one which
reports to have hundreds of songs, and it's only 29 volumes. I almost
just stopped looking.
In my mind, the most compelling reason to read music is to sight-read,
and since I know I can't do that, and since my auditory memory is so
much more developed than what ever memory is used when reading with my
fingers, it seems crazy to have 29 volumes of anything which
ultimately I'd have to sit down and study before EVER getting to play
a note. I don't like to study.
This is why I really was attracted to the idea of Lime Aloud because
you can listen, and read at the same time if you so wish.
anyway, thanks again. I'll check those options out!
Rusty
On 3/24/15, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You could try lilypond. I've also heard that musescore is accessible.
>
> On 3/24/2015 1:47 AM, Rusty Perez wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> Every few years I go through a phase where I really think I should
>> learn how to read and use braille music. I immediately backtrack
>> thinking, 1. I've gone many years and had success in what I do without
>> reading Braille Music. and 2. I only have two hands!
>>
>> Just recently I've been learning about Lime Aloud and have again been
>> toying with the thought that maybe that would be what I need. I could
>> study the music,listening to it, and, with the use of a Braille
>> Display, (if I got Good feel,) learn to read it as well along with the
>> other modalities. I've long composed music in my head but had no
>> practical way of notating it.
>>
>>
>> Here's my struggle. I do not own JAWS and studying music in 40 minute
>> sperts with the last 10 or so minutes being pestered every few minutes
>> and requiring a restart to use it again is NOT ideal.
>>
>> Does any one know of an accessible program similar to lime which NVDA
>> would work with?
>>
>>
>> I know I'm stepping in to dangerous territory here, but I'll just go
>> out on a limb and say that I am an NVDA user because I cannot afford
>> JFW and do not see the value in paying so much, on an ongoing basis,
>> when a perfectly capable alternative exists ... until now.
>> Since Good Feel and Lime Aloud are limited to use with JFW, it
>> effectively makes them $1000.00 more with little to show for it over
>> NVDA.
>>
>> And, on the other hand, while NVDA is a GREAT screen reader, and gives
>> great access to almost everything, less affluent blind musicians are
>> kept behind the velvet rope, if you will, since access to well
>> designed music notation software is out of reach without JFW.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm sure there would be some of us who would take DD up on their
>> payment plan if the software worked with NVDA.
>>
>> In the mean-time, has any one had any success with NVDA and any other
>> music notation options?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rusty
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