a new accessibility option
Hi all,
I am a visually impaired newcomer and I am very grateful for all the accessibility possibilities already built-in in the Musescore Windows app.
I have just presently started learning playing piano and tried the MS app with a 2-track MIDI file that I've made suitable for me in a sequencer program.
The first track is the right hand in the octaves 5 and 6, the second track is the accompaniment part in the octaves 2 and 3.
(the piece is a well-known waltz)
When i am stepping with the cursors left and right on the first track, it nicely plays the solo part (right hand) and simultaneously announces the rests and notes via my screen reader. So far everything is excellent.
But when I select the staff 2 (the left hand part) the situation is a very inconvenient one.
The Musescore divides this staff into 2 parts.
The "upper" part is the notes and chords in the third octave and the (lower) part is the notes in the 2nd octave.
They sometimes are on the same time position but mostly either one or the another as it is customary for a 3/4 waltz accompaniment.
So, when I want to learn the left hand part, I am continuously forced jumping with the alt-up/down arrows between the two sub-parts. And it is very difficult to find the correct continuation point on the other subpart, because the app loses the "last point" on the another subpart. This behaviour is a correct one, because this accessibility feature is programmed to jump fromvalid item to valid item.
The trouble is the division itself.
Could be implemented a special, "learning mode", in the view menu that ignores the "correct" score division rules and shows and plays (at least for the visually impaired users) every single MIDI track as a monolithic, undivided note sequence, regardless of the note octaves?
It is a kind of MIDI sequencer track view, but boosted up with the Musescore's already existing notation playing and announcing features.
Of course it will work correctly only with type 1 MIDI files, but would be a big help for anyone with visual impairment in learning piano pieces from MIDI files.
Integrating this new feature in the MS app would it render a very powerful and useful learning tool, because all existing accessible sequencer programs lack the by-note announcing and playing feature.
With bests:
Andrew