Hello Rainer,

Rainer wrote:

Hi I'm a blind user of Yamaha instruments. On Frankfurt Musikmesse I saw the Montage. And I was a little bit relaxed that You giv visually impaired users a chance to scroll through the display with Cursor buttons and Exit, Enter and so on.
I also use an iPhone and an iPad. Apple made their products accessibility for us. And now here is the question:
Is it possible to make the Apps for iPhone and iPad accessible for visually impaired users? You can use the know how from Aplle to do that.
It will be great for us. And I know that a lot of visually impaired users are using Yamaha synths quite a lot. Or is it possible to talk to the team that is working on the Apps?
Thanks for answerings
Rainer

I don't know or believe that there are plans to develop apps like you mentioned. But a few weeks ago this year I got the request to coach a blind man in Germany who is deeply interested and already ordered his MONTAGE. In preparation to his order I figured out that in addition to the scrolling and curser moves by buttons many of the features including the left hand tab that appears in different pages are accessible by buttons using the [SHIFT] button. The already provided Owners Manual from the Yamaha download site contains a list with all Shift Functions.

Hope that helps a bit,

best ...

hp

Rainer wrote:

Hi I'm a blind user of Yamaha instruments. On Frankfurt Musikmesse I saw the Montage.

Irony, anyone?

Hi Hans-Peter,
thanks for Your answer. I wrote the Owners Manual. And it is good to read that You are in contact with another blind user who has ordered his Montage.
For the Motif-series some visually impaired users wrote a lot of helpful discriptions of the displays and so on.
There is also a mailinglist for visually impaired Motif users and thats one of my hope to have a chance to scroll out through all the features of the Montage like we do for the Motif series. For the Motif series John Melas wrote very functional editors that work under Windows well with screenreading technology. so the second hope is that someone like John will work on a new editor series for the Montage thing.
I will order my Montage this week.
Rainer

Hi Kiwi,
how do You mean that?
I play my Motif XF 6 for five years and can use it well with all the discription visually and blind users are input in a lot of sheets. They all spend a lot of time to do that. And I can say: Thanks for all users they do this job.
Rainer