2/ Indeed. Displaying information in the status bar for these elements and
sending information to the screen reader needs to be done. I guess it will
be no different to what it's done for note, clef etc...
5/ If you don't own a mac, improving VoiceOver support will be hard. Don't
include it in your proposal. You can use NVDA as a reference on Windows and
see if you can improve support for Orca on Linux.
6/ Yes, good addition.
lasconic
2016-03-21 7:44 GMT+04:00 Samadhi Poornima <samadhipoornima...@cse.mrt.ac.lk
>:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Here are some points that I need to clarify with you guys.
>
>
> 2) Enable the use of keyboard to navigate to a text element or an
> articulation or a crescendo marking.
>
> Use the existing “next element” code to traverse the "annotations" for
> each ChordRest segment, the Articulations for each ChordRest, etc. Here
> what is remaining, according to my opinion, is to implement a method to
> dynamically alter the string which is displayed in the status bar to
> include attached elements. Andrei, please do share your original plan to
> implement this. I think it will be helpful here.
>
>
> 5) Support for other screen-readers- VoiceOver on OS X and also
> Orca on Linux.
>
> When implementing support for VoiceOver on OS X , I will face a problem
> since I do not own a Macintosh <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh>
> computer. Any word of advice on this issue will be helpful.
>
>
>
> In addition, I add the following point to my list.
>
>
> 6) Make the palettes accessible to the screen reader.
>
> If we have the implementation for QAccessibleWidget for the Palette
> object already, I think it remains only to implement the part which gathers
> the information from the selected element and creates the string which is
> displayed in the status bar and exposed to the Screen Reader.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Samadhi.
>
> On 20 March 2016 at 20:30, Lasconic <lasco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just want to add that Braille output is a huge project by itself if we
>> want to do it from scratch... So I wouldn't focus on this during a GSoC
>> project. Your point 1, 2, 4 and 5 are more focused on MuseScore's
>> accessibility.
>>
>> Regarding braille though...
>> We could of course integrate with freedots, but the project is currently
>> inactive. However it's the shortest road.
>> I currently operate http://musicxml2braille.appspot.com/. Doing a REST
>> API call from a plugin to get Braille out is probably doable. But, of
>> course, the plugin needs to be accessible... Not sure it's the case for any
>> plugin right now.
>>
>> lasconic
>>
>> 2016-03-20 7:48 GMT+04:00 Marc Sabatella <m...@outsideshore.com>:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:51 AM Samadhi Poornima <
>>> samadhipoornima...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2). Enable the use of keyboard to navigate to a text element or an
>>>> articulation or a crescendo marking.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think there is probably a pretty straightforward model for how this
>>> could work, based on the existing "next element" code Andrei added (which
>>> navigates clefs and barlines and some other elements, but not
>>> articulations, text, or crescendos) but making sure to also traverse the
>>> "annotations" for each ChordRest segment, the Articulations for each
>>> ChordRest, etc. Here as elsewhere, feedback from actusal blind users would
>>> be useful.
>>>
>>>> 3). Braille output- I plan on doing this by calling the FreeDots
>>>> executable once the user enters the command to import the file to braille.
>>>> However, this would not be the optimum solution to this since FreeDots is
>>>> written in java.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are other concerns here too. FreeDots is a good thing, but it is
>>> pretty limited in what it can do. There are other automatic or
>>> semi-automatic MusicXML->Braille converter, each of which also has
>>> limitations but different progrsams have different strengths and
>>> weaknesses. There are a few people out there in the world who have done
>>> fairly extensive study of these issues that you might want to consult, also
>>> it might be good to contact the develoeprs of these tools to get a sense of
>>> their plans for the future to see which tool might make the most sense for
>>> us to focus our integration efforts on. Frankly, I'm not 100% convinced it
>>> wouldn't someday be worth implementing out own Braille export, working
>>> directly from our own score representation (although I recognize that this
>>> becomes one more thing to maintain over time, so I don't make this
>>> statement lightly).
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
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