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Dear PGMusic
I am a BIAB 2021 Audiophile owner for 8 years. A year ago I responded to a request for help post on the BIAB GroupIO newgsroup. She was asking for someone to work with her on a number of BIAB items. Gudrun reported being blind but enjoying the features of BIAB. I am sighted and thought to give it a shot, "perhaps I might be able to help with some of the items".

We met online and began working thru the list of issues. Over the course of a year we have made good progress thru items of interest and with explanations have opened up the functionality available. I learned a load about BIAB and the profound challenges of vision impairment. It rapidly became a win-win partnership.

I am writing to you now to elevate several accessibility issues with BIAB. We think that we can provide a clear view to the challenges for vision impaired users. So we are offering to work with you through these accessibility issues.
We understand that you won't fix them all at once and so we are prepared to set these in a ranked order as well as offer suggestions for addressing these challenges.

Particularly confounding accessibility issues;
* Unable to Open the Song Form Dialog
https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=665681#Post665681

* Opens with Focus OFF Dialog
https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=665684#Post665684

* Keyboard ShortCut Mapping
https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=662469#Post662469
Keyboard shortcuts would empower users to solve many of their own accessibility issues.

To provide insight to our findings, categories for the Issues are;
* Tab Order
* Absence of Keystroke equivalents for Buttons
* Absence of Menu commands
* Dialogs which Open without holding the Focus

We appreciate your attention here and response to this offer.
Roy
& Gudrun

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Definitely I support any improvements that assist people with impairments of any kind.

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Definitely I support any improvements that assist people with impairments of any kind.

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I agree.

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64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
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i'm visually impaired


my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
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(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
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I use the AutoHotkey for automation and there are things like Tracks you can't access, so it needs a Tracks menu that reflects all the tracks in the Mixer and their right click menus.
If you had a Run command that could run any of the OnClick functions without having to navigate menu trees, then you could have some macros and scripting.
I know you made it originally for auto accompaniment but it has come a long way and is used for many purposes.

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