Braille Support for creating Music Theory Worksheets
Hello all,
I'm still a bit new to MuseScore, so please forgive me for my confusion. Hopefully you guys might know better! I'm an accessibility specialist at the University of North Texas and we're exploring the use of MuseScore to create music theory worksheets that can be exported to braille to support our students with visual impairments.
We ran into an issue recently where we found that the text elements (such as instructions but more importantly Roman Numeral Analysis) don't necessary translate to the braille file that was exported. Looking at it against the braille panel, I noticed that the added text elements don't necessarily appear in braille panel either. Seems like there may be a correlation between not being "visible/recognized" in MuseScore and the issues we've had with those text elements missing in the braille file.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. And thank you all for making this great community!
- Daniel
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Hi Dan, I apologize for the late response, I just saw this. Are you exporting the braille directly from MuseScore, or are you exporting MusicXML and using a separate application to convert to braille? If you are exporting braille directly from MuseScore, I can tell you that the results aren't great, as MuseScore's built-in braille export is very primitive. If you want to pursue notation software to braille conversion, I highly recommend the free and awesome program Sao Mai Braille, which is a multi-purpose braille translator that does many things well, including and especially music braille translation, and you can get it from https://saomaicenter.org/en/smsoft/smb
Hope this helps.
In reply to Hi Dan, I apologize for the… by yeid4
Thank you so much for this. I'll pitch this idea to my superiors and our colleagues in IT and ODA. THis software might be the answer to our problems. Thank you kindly!
In reply to Thank you so much for this… by PianoDanComposer
No problem. Just remember, you will still need MuseScore (or Sibelius or Dorico or another notation program) to type up the music before exporting it in MusicXML so Sao Mai Braille can turn it into braille.
Send a query to Contact Group Owner for the Musescore A11y email group where we discuss Musescore for screen reader and Braille users. You will get good responses from this group.
In reply to Send a query to Contact… by mhysnq
The email address to subscribe to that group is musescoreaccessibility+subscribe@groups.io
In reply to The email address to… by yeid4
Thank you so much for this contact. I'll send out a message shortly!