<div dir="ltr">Your post was very long and my response will not directly address what you wrote. I am quoting something I wrote a couple of years ago about interfaces for this blind people. It makes a single but I think critical point.<br>
<br>-------------<br><br>years ago
someone paid me to do a text-based UI for <span class="">ardour</span>. it was centered on
very efficient use of the keyboard and using a screen-reader.<br><br>the
code probably still exists. i don't think it was very successful,
partly for the reasons identified in the text you sent. but i think
there is a more important reason.<br>
<br>working with audio tends to involve the use of the screen to act as a
kind of memory. there are a ton of parameters in play, and its a huge
barrier if you constantly need to remember what they are all set to. the
2d expanse of the screen represents a kind of 2nd level cache of this
information, where a sighted person can simply glance around and
discover what they need to know about the current state of things. <br>
<br>reproducing this functionality without the information-dense medium
that the screen represents is a HUGE challenge. i've thought about it on
and off every since the "ksi" interface for <span class="">ardour</span> was done. i have no
ideas on how anyone could make progress on this. i think its a very
interesting, very, very hard problem. i have no time to work on it.<br>
<br>as a practical note, if someone wants to do something like this, it
would obviously be quite likely that basing their efforts on an open
source tool is likely to offer a lot of possibilities that are simply
not available when using closed source tools.<br><br>-----------------<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>