Tips for designing music and audio products inclusively and accessibly.
Deadline: 4th August 2025 The nominations are in for the MIDI Innovation Awards 2025! You can now vote for your favourite entries across the following categories: It is great to see many inclusively designed products… Read More »MIDI Innovation Awards: vote for accessible music products now
Are you aware of a product that has improved access to music-making in the last year and also uses MIDI in some way? If so, please encourage the developer to submit their product for consideration… Read More »MIDI Innovation Awards: nominate accessible music and audio products
The Audio Developer Conference is one of the main events bringing together music and audio technology designers each year. It would be great to see accessibility-related topics represented throughout the 2025 event. From the Audio… Read More »Last week to submit Audio Developer Conference 2025 talk proposals
Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows. As well as being a tool for composing, recording, and producing, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances. Quite rightly, Ableton has been lauded for the work done towards making Live… Read More »Accessibility in Ableton Live 12
The recording from the ‘Inclusive Design within Audio Products – What, Why, How?’ Accessibility Workshop at ADC 2024 is now available to replay! You can watch the whole recording via the link below, our find… Read More »ADC24: catch up on the Inclusive Design workshop now
The MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility Special Interest Group (MASSIG) will host a YouTube Premiere on June 5th at 10am PT / 6pm BST. You can tune in here and ask questions in the live chat.… Read More »Event (Online): MIDI Association Accessibility Webinar Premiere
From Jan Wilczek on LinkedIn: Calling all aspiring audio software developers… Would you benefit from an audio industry mentor? Looking for an audio programming mentor who can answer your questions about the community, provide career advice,… Read More »Opportunity: last chance to apply for the ADC Mentorship programme
Drake Music’s DMLab London returns on Monday 16 June at Rich Mix and online! From Eventbrite: Doors open 6.30pm, with presentations starting at 7pm. DMLab is a space for Disabled and Non-Disabled musicians, technologists, and makers to exchange… Read More »Event (London and online): DMLab with Rhiannon Armstrong & Simon East
We are very grateful to the MIDI Association for featuring Sound Without Sight on their blog. We are proud to be part of the MiDI Association’s Music Accessibility Special Interest Group. You can read the… Read More »Sound Without Sight featured by MIDI Association
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Sight for Surrey are working with a local (to us) corporate organisation called DiGiCo. You may already be aware of them, but they make equipment such as the Quantum 326. They are aware of two… Read More »Opportunity (UK): sound engineers wanted to help steer DiGiCo accessibility improvements
In this episode of the Sound Without Sight podcast, we share updates from the Audio Developer Conference, ADC, 24. Community member Trahern Culver reported live from the event, and later in this podcast, you will… Read More »Updates from the Audio Developer Conference, ADC24
Hello! My name is Elizabeth and I am writing to you on behalf of a group of beginner and professional audio developers. We met at the Audio Developer Conference and decided to join together and… Read More »Audio Project Workgroup wants your help
Introduction Have you ever struggled to find a music teacher who is confident teaching a blind or partially sighted person? This shouldn’t be the case, but we hear it all too often. A few weeks… Read More »How MusicTeacher.com teamed up with Sound Without Sight to help everyone find the perfect music teacher
Do you create music scores using notation software? The DAISY Consortium has published guidelines for engravers and music setters to ensure that music scores are ‘born accessible’. Following these guidelines will ensure the creation of… Read More »DAISY Engraving Guidelines: using music notation tools to create accessible scores
Music China, the international trade fair in Shanghai, has established itself as the leading platform in Asia for musical instruments and accessories. This year, the MIDI Association attended, hosting several presentations. Athan Billias writes: “Music… Read More »The MIDI Association promotes accessibility at Music China
Introduction Following the success of our workshop at last year’s Audio Developer Conference (‘An Introduction to Inclusive Design of Audio Products’), we are delighted to be presenting a follow up this year, on Monday 11th… Read More »ADC24: RNIB and Sound Without Sight to host workshop
Tim Burgess, Raised Bar, provides examples of how MIDI has been used to enhance accessibility within music technology hardware devices.
Focusrite has announced the expansion of its 4th-gen Scarlett range of audio interfaces, which are all compatible with their screen reader friendly Focusrite Control 2 software. Joining the Solo, 2i2 and 4i4 devices are the… Read More »Focusrite expands its range of accessible Scarlett audio interfaces
From Fracture Sounds’ YouTube channel: “Today we are joined by Andre Louis (@TheOnjLouis) as he shows us his workflow as a blind music producer, using Logic, VoiceOver and NKS sample libraries by Fracture Sounds.” Learn… Read More »Video: How a blind producer uses a DAW, with Andre Louis
