Our new notation editor is completely non-graphical and friendly to screen readers. It allows the blind musician interactive control of the content of the score. It is the first music editor designed primarily for the needs of the blind. It s interface facilitates navigation and editing in an aural environment. The software accepts input from both the qwerty keyboard and a MIDI musical keyboard attached via MIDI cables to the PC s sound card.
All navigation is accomplished with a combination of cursor keys or user-assignable hotkeys.
Future releases of the Dancing Dots Music Editor will have an integrated scoring feature. Presently, the finished work is exported to Lime or other notation editors for printing. It is possible to print scores with these packages but there is no interactive way to know how things are notated and to make an independent, informed decision about any necessary changes. With the introduction of the Dancing Dots Music Editor, Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology has taken an entirely new approach to addressing this problem.