A good suggestion for scripting or screen writing?

By Chuck Winstead, 11 May, 2018

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hello Apple Vis,
I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a good script play or screen play writing app? I've had a few carton ideas where the use of different people and voices are part of it. I just Wondered if there was any accessible apps for this purpose?
Thanks in advance.
Chuck

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By gregg on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 10:38

This app is a paid app. For the most part, it is accessible, but awkward.
Final Draft Mobile by Cast & Crew Production Software, LLC

By WriterGirl on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 10:38

Scrivener would probably be perfect! I've only used it for novel writing, but I know it has a script writing mode. Both the Mac and IOS apps are completely accessible; it just takes some time to learn how everything works.

By Joseph Westhouse on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 10:38

I want to second the recommendation for Scrivener. It also has a very generous trial so you have plenty of time to decide it's not for you, but I don't think you'll be disappointed.

By SnowWhite on Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 10:38

I've tried using the latest Final Draft version 11 on both Mac and PC. I'm not able to use Final Draft on the Macintosh. I'm new to the Mac Voiceover software, so maybe I'm just ignorant of how to read the screenwriting areas. I'm not able to develop anything in this environment, though I hear the tool bars and the menus.
As for the PC version Jaws 19 is the same thing. I switch to NVDA's latest version and then I can work.

What are you experiences?

I tried Final Draft 11 on MacOS for the first time today. After playing around with it for close to an hour, I still can't make sense of the UI. I'm low-vision enough to see that VoiceOver simply can't access many interface elements. Mousing over some controls open pop-up dialogs that contain text but VoiceOver claims they're empty. It's a very frustrating experience so far. I'll read a few getting started tutorials but doubt I'll be able to use this software.

By Devin Prater on Sunday, July 5, 2020 - 10:38

If you have Emacs, with Emacspeak, you can use Fountain-mode to write the script. I have no idea how to even begin doing that, but just trying it shows that it is able to be done. Read the page, and check out the fountain script, and you can try my guide to installing Emacs and Emacspeak. Or, if you don't need fancy text editing features, you can just use Text-edit, just switch it to plain text, maybe set Voiceover punctuation to all, and save with the script's preferred file extension, not .txt.