[Menvi-discuss] Please help needed to accommodate music student

Tue Jul 5 16:23:14 EDT 2011

A good person to contact would be David Pinto at Academy of Music for the
Blind. David writes the scripts for Sonar and I think one or two other music
programs now (my daughter was one of his guinea pigs when he first started
working with adapting music software for the blind). He's on vacation this
week, but if you would like his contact information you can probably find it
on the AMB website www.ouramb.org or you can write me privately for it. If
the Mac accessibility suite won't cooperate with the software your student
is supposed to learn, and Brandon certainly seems to know what he's talking
about in that regard, your student might need to find some alternative to
that class. At any rate, David might be able to help you out. He's pretty
doggone brilliant.

jeanie

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brandon Keith (Biggs) <
brandonboy13 at comcast.net> wrote:

> **
> Because these are extra programs not covered in the Mac or Windows sweet,
> neither Apple or Freedom Scientific will really be able to help you
> unfortunately. All they will say is Voice-Over works best with ProTools and
> Jaws works best with Sonar.
> There are several listsirves of blind engineers that DancingDots has and
> Bill (The owner of DancingDots) should be able to assist you in getting the
> best set-up for your student.
> But either the student or the school will need to get a windows machine
> with Sonar if the student is going to do anything more extensive than
> hitting stop, record and play. Sibelius and Goodfeal are basically
> interchangeable with more features than Finale and Sonar has the features
> of  logic and proTools combined. (The only reason why schools teach those 3
> are because they are advertised the most and are the standard).
> I would really love to know if there is a way schools can teach their blind
> students the technology they can use when they only have technology that
> isn't accessible. (That way students wouldn't flap around like a fish out of
> water trying to figure out how to translate two languages when they know
> neither of them!)
>  Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>
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>  *From:* Brandon Keith (Biggs) <brandonboy13 at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:53 PM
> *To:* This is for discussing music and braille literacy<menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Menvi-discuss] Please help needed to accommodate music
> student
>
> Hello,
> Those 3 programs are very inaccessible. ProTools is becoming more
> accessible, but it is still very difficult to learn and operate. We are
> trying to get it better, but most blind audio engineers use Sonar from
> Dancing Dots.
> I ran to a lot of the same problems your student will face: No Sonar
> support at school and having to learn everything on my own to do what my
> sighted classmates were doing with instruction. I'm not sure if Bill or any
> other people have any suggestions for working with the translation barrier
> between ProTools and Sonar or using ProTools, Logic and Finale.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>
> Check out
> MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithbiggs
> Also add me on facebook!
> brandonkeith
> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675097942
> And for my resume go to:
> http://www.sfcasting.com/brandonkeith
>
>  *From:* Dianne Moore <moored14 at lcc.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:34 AM
> *To:* Menvi-discuss at menvi.org
> *Subject:* [Menvi-discuss] Please help needed to accommodate music student
>
>  This Fall semester, one of the students whom I serve will be taking the
> college Music Technology class.  This class is housed in a Mac lab where
> students use Finale, Pro Tools, and Pro Logic.  This student uses JAWS as
> her screen reader yet Freedom Scientific tells us that JAWS is not
> compatible with Mac nor with Pro Logic.****
>
> ** **
>
> This student and I have already planned to have a reader/scribe in class
> with her; however, she will need to learn these programs for the course.  Is
> it possible for her to use these programs?  What do I need to know to
> accommodate her appropriately?  How does she need to prepare herself?  Do we
> need totally different software programs for her?****
>
> ** **
>
> I am not knowledgeable in music ed, but I am responsible for providing her
> accommodations.  Can any of you give me some direction?  I am currently
> researching the three programs via goggle and their companies’ sites and
> support links….attempting to learn as much as I can about these three
> program accessibilities.****
>
> ** **
>
> Additionally, the course instructor and the music dept. chair are currently
> on vacation and unavailable for me to learn more about what this student
> needs to be able to do going in to the course and what the student will be
> doing with these programs in the weeks of the class.****
>
> ** **
>
> Meantime, time is passing and I need to organize effective accommodations.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> Urgently seeking direction,****
>
> ** **
>
> Dianne Moore, *MA*
>
> *Reader Services Coordinator*
>
> *GB204-32*
>
> *517-483-5263*
>
> *Office of Disability Support Services*
>
> *Lansing Community College
>
> *
>
> ** **
>
> **
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