Hi all, I got a really helpful mail this morning from Twistedwave support. Firstly they seem open to accessibility concerns and said they would consider my suggestions on scrubbing and other things for the future. Then they told me about some undocumented keyboard shortcuts that can come in handy: You can actually select small portions from the sound file using shift + left and right arrows. Secondly you can scrub by shift+command clicking anywhere in the wave form rather than having to locate the ruler that you drag in in order to scrub. ”But the wave form isn’t visible” i hear you ask, and it is true, however there’s an indicator or rather a text that tells you sample rate, bit depth etc, go up from there with your physical mouse or track pad until you hear ”name of project, window” where ”name of project” is the name of your audio file and there is your wave form. Now to my own findings: It’s good if you turn cursor tracking off when playing with Twistedwave. You may also want to consider setting ”cursor moves back after playing” to checked. That way the cursor seems to move back to the play head when you stop playing and i think though i can’t be certain about this, that this makes it easier to scrub. By default it looks like the wave form is very small so when you select, you select in very long distances, so just like in all other wave editors, adjust the zoom so the waveform gets bigger. The edit short cuts dialog isn’t a loser after all, it’s quite smart in fact. The way the dialog works is like this: You go into the dialog for editing shortcuts, then it tells you to select an item from the menu to edit its short cuts. VO+m to the menu bar and then go to a menu and select the menu item you want to edit just as you would if you wanted to choose something from that menu. Now another dialog pops up asking you for the keyboard shortcut. Enter the shortcut you want and the dialog will close and you’re in the main window. Now here’s a little tricky bit, because the edit shortcuts dialog stays open however it’s not in focus so whatever you do do not select an item from a menu because then you will be asked for a new shortcut for this item. Instead use the window chooser, vo+f2 twice in rapid succession and you’ll be in the window chooser menu, go down the menu until you hear ”edit shortcuts” and choose that item. Now you’ll be in the edit shortcuts dialog again and you can ok the choices you’ve made or revert to default short cuts or cancel the dialog alltogether. What i’d suggest you do is to set up a shortcut for going to start and end of selections, those shortcuts will come in handy when you edit. Hope this makes any sense. Now here’s where i need your help guys: Could someone who works with Twistedwave please help me explain to the devs in a technical way how to make the wave form visible to VO? I don’t think you can make the wave form itself visible so that you can interact with it and do fun stuff, although that would be cool but one could do as they have done in some audio editors in IOS where the wave form is, Voiceover says ”wave form”. As i said, i hope any of this made sense. /Krister
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