Re: [orca-list] Question about an accessible midi composing software

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi,
I think that the problem with qws and wine is that you'll need a screen
reader inside wine.
Maybe I'm wrong.

On 07/09/2010 10:59 AM, André L. Baldo wrote:
> Hello Sebastian,
>
> Thanks for the answer. I'll have to check out Midge and Tuxguitar, since
> by what I remember, RoseGarden is made for KDE so, not accessible with
> Orca. Actually, still didn't try out QWS with Wine but if all else
> fails, I'll do just that!
>
> Thanks anyway,
> André.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Humenda" <shumenda gmx de>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Question about an accessible midi composing
> software
>
>
> Hello André,
>
> André L. Baldo <supermalavox gmail com> wrote on Do, Jul 08, 2010 at
> 04:37:06 -0300:
> > My name is André and I am from Brazil. I've started to use Ubuntu with
> > Orca two weeks ago. I am still migrating from Windows so probably will
> > have many questions. Well, here comes my first one:
> > One of the things I like to do for fun is composing midi files using the
> > computer keyboard. There is, in Windows, a program called QWS made >
> > specifically for the blind and because of this, really accessible with
> > Jaws.
> > Well, I would like to know a program for that purpose that can be used
> > in Linux with Orca, or if QWS could be used in Wine and accessed by
> > the refered screen reader.
> Have you tried it yet with wine? I know currently of midge [1] where you
> can
> write midi files, but this might be a bit more than you want. Rosegarden
> and
> Tuxguitar are also capable of exporting as midi. There's also tuneit
> from Mario
> Lang [2], but I don't know exactly whether this is something you need,
> because
> I never tested it myself.
>
> [1] www.undef.org.uk/code/midge/
> [2] www.delysid.org
>
> Greetings
> Sebastian