[Jsonar] iZotope News: Music Technology Leader's Products Will Now Support Screen Reader Software

[Scott Chesworth]

Great work chaps, very impressive that they went so public with it too.

I'll drop support a note later today and take the Mac side of things
for a spin whenever they're ready.

On 1/19/10, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, I am impressed. It makes me all the more happy that I was one of
> the participants during the early beta testing of their accessibility
> work. I will definitely make this known wherever I go!
>
> Thanks for sharing,
> Vic
>
> On 1/18/2010 9:51 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
>> This just popped up on the news feed at Harmony-Central, so I can post
>> it here.
>>
>> I am both shocked and pleased at this public statement from iZotope Inc.
>>
>> These guys deserve our praise, an award or two and lots of publicity
>> within the blind musician community. Most of all, they deserve lots of
>> encouragement to continue to include us when designing new products. Not
>> just that, they deserve our full participation in testing their
>> accessible product builds - you'll read more about that in the below
>> press release.
>>
>> Phil, Tim and others who were in contact, along with myself, with
>> iZotope's Jeremy Todd, Chief Technology Officer, thank you for
>> participating in the early dialogues that lead to this. and, don't stop
>> now! I hope you are still at least experimenting with those demo builds
>> of RX and Ozone, and noting any anomalous behavior for Mr. Todd. Or,
>> send any reports to me and I'll forward them along.
>>
>> Text of the press release follows, and please distribute this far and
>> wide.
>>
>> PRESS RELEASE
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Music Technology Leader's Products Will Now Support Screen Reader Software
>>
>> January 18, 2010
>>
>> iZotope, Inc. has announced the scheduled release of product updates to
>> support accessibility software for the visually impaired. Available for
>> download by the end of Q1 2010, the updates will significantly expand
>> the information made available to accessibility software interfacing
>> with their programs. This endeavor is closely related to iZotope's 2010
>> Education Initiate. The Initiative will support music education by
>> donating software to classrooms around the world. iZotope has made
>> supporting the community a top priority for the upcoming year.
>>
>> "iZotope software has become an industry standard, and that means it's
>> time to commit to universal access," says CTO Jeremy Todd. "We plan to
>> do this with the help of the visually impaired community itself, so we
>> invite users of screen readers to contact us for more information or to
>> get involved."
>>
>> The forthcoming product updates will allow commonly used screen reader
>> programs to work with iZotope's software on both Mac and PC platforms.
>> iZotope also noted that this support is a long term commitment and will
>> be incorporated into all subsequent releases of products and updates.
>>
>> Users interested in testing the accessibility updates may contact
>> support at izotope.com for more information. Advance copies of the updates
>> will be available upon request.
>>
>> For more information, visit their web site at
>> http://www.izotope.com/.
>>
>>
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