Pitch name read twice by screen reader even for concert pitch instruments

• Nov 14, 2020 - 23:56
Reported version
3.5
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Ergonomical (UX)
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project

In a score for piano or other concert pitch instrument, the status bar - and hence the screen reader - always reports the sounding pitch for every note even for concert pitch instruments. This is not good, it greatly slows down score reading for blind musicians. Originally it seems the code for reporting sounding pitch - which is a great thing overall! - skipped this for concert pitch instruments. Now, however, it reports it for all instruments. Only if concert pitch is turned off, which provides a workaround, but still, concert pitch instruments should not need this extra info.

I guess this was added to be sure to catch octave transposition - its not enough to compare TPC as was done previously. But still, we need to compare the final pitches and not double-read if they are the same.


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Fix version
3.6.0