The Mackie Display Reader offers a method to make the popular Mackie Control Universal control surfaces provide speech output when used in conjunction with
any of the most popular screen readers (Jaws, Window-Eyes, System Access and NVDA). The Reader can be run in the background whilst a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) application is run in the foreground
- it provides additional information to assist the visually-impaired user operate the application. This initial release is offered for free and is optimised for use with Cakewalk Sonar.
It is particularly useful when handling plug-in effects and software synthesizers.
Current Developments
We have a major rewrite of this application under development that supports multiple devices on both Windows and Mac. For a little background information on this, please take a look at the thumbmail description on the SurfaceReader page on the RNIB site