Making sheets easier to read with visual impairment
I'm visually impaired, and I want to make some piano scores easier to read for myself. I know I can adjust the page scale, but I think it'd be helpful if notes were colored according to their vertical position somhow (as in, you'd have 7 looping colours based on the note's vertical positioning), so it would be easier for me to discern visually. Is there any easy way in which this could be achieved automatically?
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Try the built-in plugin for Color Notes: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/plugins
Like https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/plugins#color-notes ?
Also see https://musescore.org/en/tutorials/modified-stave-notation for quite a few additional ideas on things that can be done to improve the readability of scores for people with visual impairment. The guidelines were produced by the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) and we worked closely with them in implementing support for their recommendations.
Thank you for your responses! I've adapted that script slightly to fit my needs, and I was now also wondering whether it's possible to add black outlines to all note heads?
In reply to Thank you for your responses… by _Rule
You mean, if you've colored them something other than black? There is no automatic way to do this. but I guess you could try adding a second notehead to each note (so, a "chord" ot two notes, both the same pitch),. use Shift+X to force them onto the same side of the stem, make one small (via the Inspector) so it fits inside the other, and make the smaller one colored but the larger black.
In reply to You mean, if you've colored… by Marc Sabatella
now if only there were a way to automate that process with the lighter-colored notes in the color-notes plugin...any pointers on how I might go about doing that?
In reply to now if only there were a way… by bmillions
You can change the colors in the plugin.