accessibility of reading scores - MuseScore v3

• Apr 14, 2019 - 20:50

Hello,
i'm trying to use MuseScore 3 with NVDA.
i found that MuseScore 2 read easily the score, but the v3 only plays notes without reading them.

can you investigate?

thanks

Comments

kuwitt

• Apr 14, 2019 - 21:04

Sounds like #285464: Musescore 3.0.4 Accessibility drawback?
Try to install and check it with MuseScore 3.0.2 (which Operating System you're using?).

andreaggalass1

• Apr 15, 2019 - 06:36

Yes yes, same issue. Sorry, i didnt check. However, after trying the v2, my mum (the musician user) found the screenreader interations with musescore not suitable for her. We had to fallback to FreeDots and notepad. I can try to write a plugin for musescore that send to nvda only the score like she wants... My question now is: why there is not a standard for blind musician users that software like yours have to follow?
Thanks in advances

shoogle

• Jun 25, 2019 - 19:46

A valid question, but MuseScore is not a standards body so your guess is as good as ours. Perhaps you can let us know what your mum's requirements are and we could try to meet them?

I know that verbosity is a big problem currently. Selecting a note might result in the screen reader saying:

Note; Pitch: C5; Measure: 1; Duration: Crotchet; Voice: 1; Bar: 1; Beat: 1; Stave: 1

and then selecting the next note gives:

Note; Pitch: D5; Measure: 1; Duration: Crotchet; Voice: 1; Bar: 1; Beat: 2; Stave: 1

We could change this so that only the information that changes is read, i.e.:

Pitch: D5; Beat: 2

Are there any other improvements you would like to see in terms of speech output?