Accessibility by blind user of MIDI Guitar 3 using a screen reader on Windows

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I just downloaded the beta v3.x version of midiGuitar3 and loaded up in reaper. However, I get absolutely no sound out of it, and the interface is completely inaccessible to those of us who need to use screen readering software on our computer. I’ve been playing guitar for 40 years, and would love a good modern midi guitar solution. Jam Origin midi guitar3 seems by far the most affordable, but I can’t seem to use it at all.

Are there any ways to get this thing going via coding presets by hand via xml or json or whatever to circumvent the interface’s inaccessibility? It seems like just putting this thing on a track and piping audio into it should give me at least some sound, even if I can’t use the interface…

Ideas welcome. Please jamOrigin, make this thing usable via screen reader. Many blind folks will praise you! All the hardware solutions out there most likely use touch screens and are inaccessible out-of-the-box, so a software solution that is accessible would be a huge win for us!

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Yes, I know. The problem is that we don’t use a OS native UI, so screenreaders generally don’t work. I have on my todo-list to make an alternative very small native UI window, where you can just select patch, as you say.

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Instead of a UI that only selects patches, how about exposing the internals so we can type text into a config file or equivalent, that way we could do everything that a sighted user could do.

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Yes this is a good idea. Patches could be plain text and then you can simply modify them in a text editor, but they are rather complicated - like a small programming language.