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{{external|[http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.4-Guide.html A Guide to using Audacity 1.3.4]}} with the commercial JAWS screen reader for Windows, by David Bailes. It includes tips for navigating 1.3.4 without the mouse which should be helpful to users on all operating systems. | {{external|[http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.4-Guide.html A Guide to using Audacity 1.3.4]}} with the commercial JAWS screen reader for Windows, by David Bailes. It includes tips for navigating 1.3.4 without the mouse which should be helpful to users on all operating systems. | ||
Revision as of 09:19, 22 February 2009
This page contains information for blind or visually impaired users of Audacity. It includes tips that make it easier to use the current stable Audacity 1.2.x version without a mouse.
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Tips for 1.2.x versions
Beta 1.3.x series
The Audacity developers have been working on better keyboard and screen-reader access in the Beta 1.3.x versions of the program. A very important feature of the Beta (1.3.2 and later) versions is the ability to fully manipulate the track selection using the keyboard . The improvements for the visually impaired are not yet fully documented, but there is useful information in the Documentation and mailing lists section below.
Documentation and mailing lists
Audacity4blind website and mailing list - no longer active, but there is still an archive with lots of useful questions and answers.
A Guide to using Audacity 1.3.4 with the commercial JAWS screen reader for Windows, by David Bailes. It includes tips for navigating 1.3.4 without the mouse which should be helpful to users on all operating systems.
Free Screen Readers
NVDA for Windows. This is said to work quite well with Audacity.
VoiceOver built-in screen reader for OS X. Audacity does not work especially well at the moment with VoiceOver. This is because there is no current support for it in the wxWidgets GUI library which Audacity uses.
Orca for Linux/Unix. As of GNOME 2.16, Orca is a part of the GNOME platform, so is already provided by default on a number of operating system distributions, including Open Solaris, Fedora and Ubuntu. It does not work with the KDE environment. ORCA works quite well with Audacity Beta, including reading most of the toolbar controls.
