Tips for designing music and audio products inclusively and accessibly.
From Drake Music: We are thrilled to announce that applications are now open for our second round of funding grants to support the creation of new accessible musical instruments! About the Seed Funding At DMLab… Read More »Accessible Instrument Development Funding from Drake Music
How FastSpring are working with retailers, including music and audio software companies, to ensure that processes for purchasing software online are as accessible as possible.
Recently, NZ Opera (a New Zealand based opera company) has introduced braille surtitles to their performances. This means that blind and deaf/blind audiences can now follow along with what’s going on in the story, where… Read More »NZ Opera adds braille surtitles in inclusivity move
[From Andre Louis on Logic Accessibility Google Group]: If you’re a Mac user and also one that relies on VoiceOver, then you may already be familiar with VOCR. If you use VoiceOver but don’t use… Read More »Demo: VOCR 2.0 for Mac with Chi Kim and Andre Louis
Introduction The last couple of years have seen a huge increase in the attention to the discourse surrounding inclusivity and accessibility in design of audio and music software. With recent efforts by companies such as… Read More »‘An Introduction to Inclusive Design of Audio Products’: summary and recording from the Audio Developer Conference workshop
From GitHub YouTube channel: In the latest episode of GitHub’s “Coding Accessibility” video series, we meet Michael “Mick” Curran and Jamie Teh, the creators of the open-source NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) screen reader. We also… Read More »GitHub’s “Coding Accessibility”: How NVDA & OSARA are empowering blind people globally
Shared on behalf of Bristol Braille Technology. Calling all Braille music lovers: Bristol Braille Technology are now opening up the Braille Invention Centre, so that we can gather interested people to try out the Canute… Read More »This weekend: Braille music event at Bristol Braille Technology
The KK-Access website is dedicated to everything connected to the world of Native Instruments and its range of Komplete Kontrol accessible MIDI controller keyboards. Whether it’s hardware, software, sample libraries, VST plug-ins, news, or reviews,… Read More »KK-Access website for Komplete Kontrol information
I am very grateful to the MIDI Association for the opportunity to present an overview of ‘Accessibility and Inclusive Design within Music-making Products’ at the NAMM Show 2024. Also highlighting the MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility… Read More »Tomorrow! Tune into the MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility session from NAMM Show 2024, featuring Sound Without Sight
We were very happy that accessibility was a key focus at MIDI Association’s Annual Meeting 2023. Jay Pocknell (Sound Without Sight and RNIB) was invited to present an update on the state of accessibility in… Read More »Accessibility on the agenda MIDI Association’s Annual Meeting 2023
Following the success of the ‘Inclusive Design in Harmony’ event held earlier this year, RNIB and Sound Without Sight will be hosting a workshop at this year’s Audio Developer Conference. The session will promote the… Read More »ADC23: RNIB and Sound Without Sight to host workshop
The RNIB’s Music Advisory Service (MAS) supports people with sight loss in any aspect of making music. This includes, but not limited to funding advice, music notation and transcription, accessible audio production, networking, maintaining well-being,… Read More »RNIB Music Advisory Service
This article collates all the inclusively designed software, hardware, instruments, ensembles, and opportunities mentioned by panellists at the ‘Inclusive Design in Harmony’ event.
A summary of the conversation from the ‘Inclusive Design in Harmony’ roundtable event, which explored ways of improving inclusion of people who have additional access requirements.
We are delighted to share that Sound Without Sight has been designated as a Community Sponsor of the Audio Developer Conference 2023. This article details ADC’s commitment to accessibility and invites submissions of talk proposals.
In this podcast episode, I interview Jay Pocknell; founder of Sound Without Sight, and a producer and mixing engineer from the UK. We discuss Sound Without Sight and Jay’s path to becoming an engineer, which… Read More »Sound Without Sight on WolfTalk Podcast: How To Create Accessible Audio Software
Dr. Tony Stockman, of Queen Mary, University of London, writes an initial introduction to the three main audio programming languages that are currently accessible to blind and visually impaired programmers.
John Merriman details the constant evolution of Crown Lane Studios, as it strives to be the world’s most accessible recording and rehearsal space.
I have begun writing a series of articles titled ‘Audio Programming Unseen’, focusing on supporting blind and visually impaired people to access audio programming. You can read the first article at the link below: Audio… Read More »An Introduction to Accessible Audio Programming
