[Athen] Radio and TV Production tools for screen reader

[Deborah Armstrong]

I personally love the APH studio recorder product. It is more geared towards editing spoken word audio and unlike Reaper is only single track. But it has some especially great low-vision features if a user wishes to work with the wav file visually but cannot see well.
And it has keystrokes for every feature, has a topnotch manual and is screen reader friendly!


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Justin Romack
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 8:40 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Radio and TV Production tools for screen reader

Howdy!

I studied radio and television production for a few semesters ... and though my program ultimately changed directions, I've never lost my desire for broadcast media.

As a totally blind podcast producer and host, I use Reaper to record, edit and mix multi-channel audio for clients and my own projects. Reaper works wonderfully with JAWS / NVDA on Windows, as well as with VoiceOver on the Mac. Reaper rivals many well-known commercial products ... like Audacity, Audition and ProTools.

The video production piece is a little trickier, though I've had some experience using iMovie and Windows Movie Maker (several years back.) The Adobe products are ... not great ... when it comes to screen reader access. It's all going to depend on the level of complexity involved with this student's projects and coursework. Too, something worth noting, that a lot of television production relies heavily on audio engineering as well ... so that could and should be part of the conversation as the student and their instructors explore what pursuing this program will look like. I've always had a dream of being a sound recordist alongside a video crew in the field ... maybe one day.

If this student has any questions, you're more than welcome to pass along my info.

Happy to help!

Best,
Justin


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Sent: Friday, June 7, 2019 3:03 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Radio and TV Production tools for screen reader

Hello everyone,

We have a student who is enrolling in both a radio production and a t.v. production course this fall. The student is blind and primarily uses VoiceOver, though they are proficient enough with JAWS when needed. I'm wondering if anyone has any resources or insight on tools or software that is screen reader friendly for such production work? We have met with the radio production professor previously who indicated that Audacity was the main software used in the course, though higher level courses would switch to Adobe Premier, and we have a meeting scheduled with the t.v. production professor.

Thank you everyone, and have a great weekend!

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