Guitar Tab Reader for JAWS

A little cross posting for those looking for a way to read guitar tabs using JAWS.

Guitar Tab Reader for JAWS is a free, open source JAWS script that enables JAWS screen reader users to read guitar tablature notation. It does this by converting the fretting information that appears on the six parallel lines of tab notation into a series of playing instructions.

Here is an example. First you will encounter a short line of tablature. To keep things simple there are only a few notes just on the high E string. Immediately after the tab notation are playing instructions created by the Tab Reader script.

E|--3-3/7-7b9
B|-----------
G|-----------
D|-----------
A|-----------
E|-----------
First string: Third fret
First string: Third fret and slide up to Seventh fret
First string: Seventh fret and bend up to the note on Ninth fret 

The tab reader script works with the Windows Notepad program to read guitar tablature. It takes just 3 steps to read a tab line:

1. Copy and paste a full line of tablature from any source into Notepad.
2. Move the keyboard cursor anywhere on the top line of the tab staff.
3. Press Control plus Alt plus: T  .

The script places the playing instructions in the JAWS virtual buffer, and you can read them using any of the JAWS reading commands.

To learn more and download this free script, visit: http://backtoplayingblind.blogspot.com/.