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I use a screen reader which outputs text to me via speech. On 30 Dec 2021, at 18:43, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote: On 30/12/2021 11:25, trahern culver wrote: > Hi Michael thank you for your reply. I hope you had a good Christmas. regarding > your first point, the only reason why I mailed the list twice was because I wasn’t > sure the list had received my first message I thought there might have been some > type of technical difficulty. regarding your second point I would be happy to pay > for someone to help me and fund buying the parts et cetera et cetera but I wasn’t > sure if I could mention this in my message due to the rules of the list. my > initial plan was to see if there was any interest and if there was interest > discuss those details in private with somebody. thank you once again for your kind > reply. > On 29 Dec 2021, at 23:45, Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/12/2021 16:34, trahern culver wrote: >> Hi everyone, a belated happy Christmas and early happy New Year to you >> all :-) I hope you're keeping well. >> I’m trey a totally blind electronic musician based in South Wales, I >> have no coding or DIY electronics ability. However recently I became >> interested in this portable music production system the m8 tracker >> link below: >> https://dirtywave.com/ >> As well as the hardware you see available for purchase on the website >> it can also be run barebones on a teenzy 4.1 board and connected up to >> a raspberry pie to display the information to a sighted user on a >> screen. There is a cross platform headless display client which I >> have linked below: >> https://github.com/derkyjadex/M8WebDisplay >> This is a Web display client which the developer of the project tells >> me will be easy to modify but there is also >> https://github.com/laamaa/m8c >> Another display client, I am putting both of them here because those >> with coding experience will be able to tell me which one is most easy >> to modify for accessibility. >> >> As you can see the clients are open source, as is I Believe the >> firmware for the m8. >> >> I would like to use this myself as well as make it accessible to all >> other totally blind people. >> I am looking for somebody to help me with this the first task as I see >> it is to code the Display client on the raspberry pie to output >> information to text to speech in a meaningful way. >> The other aspects of the project as I see it are physical. >> The most major physical aspect is building an enclosure for the Teensy >> board which would include a volume knob and midi and audio >> connections. >> A physical audio output for the raspberry pie would also be useful. >> There is the control system but that can either be a Bluetooth >> keyboard or gamepad. I understand this is a massive ask of people. But >> if anybody thinks they would be able to help me or knows anybody that >> might be up for the challenge please feel free to drop me an email off >> list or respond to this message. I am asking here because I'm not able >> to do any of this myself. >> Thank you for taking the time to read this message everyone I hope you >> can help me happy Christmas and happy New Year your help with this >> would be most welcome thank you very much kind regards Trey. > We got your message the first time, Trey. The fact that nobody has yet responded > means one of two common things; one, nobody has had time or inclination to research > the project you propose, or two, that nobody in this list is actually interested. > Whilst LUGs do often have curious minds present, and I see this quite a bit with > the > Fab Labs in Devon too, we're not here to 'do the work' for you - many of us already > have full lives with family and jobs, and don't normally offer to undertake > projects > for unknown others without reward or compensation for their time, skills and > effort. > I'm not going to pre-judge your situation here on the list hopefully, but I do want > to adjust your expectations so that you know how to proceed should you find no help > forthcoming here. > Regards, > Michael / veremitz. To Trahern Culver, Dear Sir, 20211230 Re: [LUG] Totally blind electronic musician seeking help with accessible music track a project please help thanks very much. You post caused me to realise I was totally unable to help you. So sorry no reply was sent by me, not even a "Sorry I cannot help you" message. However, it raised the question of how you use a computing device, as having had one blind and deaf grandparent, I am well aware of the limitations. Does your computing device work by audible input and screen read to you? Especially for use of email. A note from you on what you use may help some of us to understand. I do appreciate how, that while blind you can play and use a musical instrument. -- -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq