Hello all KVR Audio readers,
Yesterday (Wednesday, February 7th, 2024) we had the second meeting which was the first one after the NAMM Show at Anaheim, California. We had Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (WG Backup Chair), Athan Billias (the president of The MIDI Association and WG Scribe) andEmanuele "Lele" Paravicini from Audio Modeling, Stephen Penny fromNative Instruments GmbH and Jay Pocknell, the Music Support Officer from the Culture, Media and Immersive Technologies Team of RNIB present on the meeting. We talked about the NAMM and its MASSIG-related events. We also discussed about resources (ie putting videos and other MASSIG-related material) and inviting people to the MASSIG, and to have a good balance between users and the developers. The midi.org website (https://www.midi.org/) has gone a complete rework and will be released soon, most likely during next week (week 7, February 12th-18th, 2024). The new abovementioned website is designed with accessibility in mind, so all of the MASSIG members are looking forward to seeing its publication. We also decided that midi.org would be a central repository for things related to music accessibility. We also talked about screen readers and their relationship to the Music Accessibility Standard.Finally, we brieflyTalked about the accessibility and the scalability of the user experiences (meaning that different users experience the music accessibility-related actions differently). For example, if you would have a notation full of notes, it would be very frustrating to hearthe speech synthesis tell it all at once but rather to hear one note at a given position (such as the second note of the first beat being 'C2'). Stay tuned for more news!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
Yesterday (Wednesday, February 7th, 2024) we had the second meeting which was the first one after the NAMM Show at Anaheim, California. We had Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (WG Backup Chair), Athan Billias (the president of The MIDI Association and WG Scribe) andEmanuele "Lele" Paravicini from Audio Modeling, Stephen Penny fromNative Instruments GmbH and Jay Pocknell, the Music Support Officer from the Culture, Media and Immersive Technologies Team of RNIB present on the meeting. We talked about the NAMM and its MASSIG-related events. We also discussed about resources (ie putting videos and other MASSIG-related material) and inviting people to the MASSIG, and to have a good balance between users and the developers. The midi.org website (https://www.midi.org/) has gone a complete rework and will be released soon, most likely during next week (week 7, February 12th-18th, 2024). The new abovementioned website is designed with accessibility in mind, so all of the MASSIG members are looking forward to seeing its publication. We also decided that midi.org would be a central repository for things related to music accessibility. We also talked about screen readers and their relationship to the Music Accessibility Standard.Finally, we brieflyTalked about the accessibility and the scalability of the user experiences (meaning that different users experience the music accessibility-related actions differently). For example, if you would have a notation full of notes, it would be very frustrating to hearthe speech synthesis tell it all at once but rather to hear one note at a given position (such as the second note of the first beat being 'C2'). Stay tuned for more news!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
Statistics: Posted by BlindMusician — Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:02 am