r/Blind • u/DilfInTraining124 • 24d ago

Technology I need help finding an accessible DAW

I’m currently a jaws user. I already have a physical set up with an audio interface, but I need the final step which is software. I’ve seen reaper suggested frequently, but I found a few warnings about how they stopped updating Jaws support. Similar things about ProTools, but I don’t have a lot of money to shill out. Any other suggestions would be great.

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 24d ago

a simple batch file or vb script to hop between screen readers is easy to code and you could assign a hotkey to trigger that from anywhere.

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u/SightlessKombat 24d ago

Respectfully I disagree, as that is true only if you know how to code in those languages proficiently and have a hotkey free.

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 23d ago

I think it's a solution that turns having 2 existing hotkeys into 1, cuts down the exit from screen reader one and load screen reader process into a single step and also allows you to potentially restore from a crash. it's not a complicated coding job for anyone learning a bit of programming, and if you are already juggling multiple screen readers and DAWs, is something many people would find a benefit.

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u/Lopsided-Recording10 19d ago edited 19d ago

. I can see the utility but, like, that takes a lot more time than just typing capslock f4, windows r, jaws 2025. I know it would save time in the long run but I've just never felt the need and I'm always switching between them. That control alt n keystroke may interfere with some other hotkey, like google's fastest ones in docs but that's easy  to work around

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 19d ago

capslock q if you're quitting NVDA and loading JAWS, surely. I switch between screen readers a good 10 times a day for work, so I guess for me the efficiencies really add up because they both have different start and stop keys. Far easier to hit ctrl+alt+shift+s, which I've mapped to my desktop shortcut for screen reader switch by using the ctrl+alt key on the right of my keyboard, and not have to worry about which one I'm quitting and which one I want on next.

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u/Lopsided-Recording10 19d ago

Yes of course, I was writing too fast haha. I'm used to switching between them at least that much and it just doesn't seem that slow to me.

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 19d ago

hehe you almost proved my point with that error! But yes, if you're used to it, it can seem just not a problem. My wife has an annoying habit of going to a search engine's home page and typing into the search box, rather than using the bar in her browser for example. Even though she knows the bar is there and set to the same engine, and she's loading a whole page she doesn't need, it's just built in.

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u/Lopsided-Recording10 18d ago

Now that one I absolutely do deliberately, some searches need the google machine, some need to duck and go and I'd best not mix them up.

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 18d ago

still a total waste of bandwidth and resources. you can change search provider within any web browser and, with some, you can even prefix a search (g something for google, d something to duck etc). Loading up a search page was 22% of my wife's workweek last time. Crazy!

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u/Lopsided-Recording10 18d ago

Yeah that's wild, You must make the best spreadsheets … I'm imagining like 20 different macros all tied to 20 different shortcuts.

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u/retrolental_morose Totally blind from birth 18d ago

hehe something like that.

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