Bug: Cannot get past introductory dialogs of Muse Score using Voiceover on iOS
When first launching Muse Score, the app comes up with two introductory dialogs that each have a "Continue" label.
Several issues using Voiceover with the latest Muse Score for iOS:
- Although when flicking right to navigate to the "continue" text, Voiceover does not recognize it as an actionable item like a button. It simply appears as text.
- With focus on the "Continue" text, performig a two finger double tap using Voiceover does not activate the button and move on to the next dialog or screen. Thus, using Voiceover, one can't actually get into the working part of the Muse Score app.
Sometimes one can get past the first introductory screen that contains the "continue" button, but I have never succeeded in getting past the second of the two introductory screens with Voiceover active. This has been a problem for the last 3 or 4 releases of the iOS app, including the latest one I downloaded on Feb. 19, 2023.
Please fix this so that folks using Voiceover can at least test the iOS app. Hopefully this uses many of the hotkeys available for a desktop PC and can be made similarly accessible.
Thanks.
--Pete
Comments
Hi, Pete! You mention iOS - so, you're talking about the mobile app and not MuseScore itself? I'm not sure that is known to be accessible at all, but anyhow, the place where those apps are discussed and supported is overt on musescore.com - see https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-ios. And to contact the support team for that site and their mobile products directly, use the contact link at the bottom of any page on that site.
In reply to Hi, Pete! You mention iOS -… by Marc Sabatella
Marc,
Thanks for your reply. I will post this on the Muse Score for iOS forum at the link you suggested.
I was hoping that with all of the great hotkeys and navigation methods the developers like you put into the desktop app to make it accessible to the blind using screen readers that those hotkeys and methods would also be an integral part of the iOS app for use with Voiceover.
We'll see! Would be nice to be able to sit down at my piano away from the desktop to work with Muse Score.
In either case, I had a look at Muse Score 4 recently and watched your great tutorials. Very nice and useable. Thanks a bunch.
--Pete
In reply to Marc, Thanks for your reply… by ptorpey
The iOS app isn't for working with MuseScore in any real sense, it's just a view / player for scores. You can't edit scores in it, it only displays them or plays them. It's a completely separate app, sharing a little of the internal code for reading the score but completely different sets of commands and a completely separate UI. Since the accessibility is really all about the UI, really none of that code is part of the mobile app at all. Nor could it be - the mobile app simply lacks any of the things the MuseScore UI does, like adding notes, adding elements from the palette, navigating note by note, etc.
Glad you enjoyed the videos! And thanks for your help and insights when we originally created the JAWS scripts for MuseScore 3 - which we're happy to say are no longer needed :-)