VISUALLY Impaired (blind) people support

"Tools for Visually Impaired People" is a software module of the WEDELMUSIC system, referring to a collection of tools and methods that render the modalities of the common WEDEL User Interface to a form accessible from the blind people.

 

 

The "Tools for Visually Impaired" or VIModule, handles the access to WEDELMUSIC functionality from Visually Impaired Persons (VIs). This is achieved through the duplication of the majority of WEDEL services, as well as the extension of the user interface with modalities appropriate for individuals with sighting disabilities. VIModule integrates existing accessible UI technologies into a single service that enables the impaired user to download a music score and associated information remotely, navigate through the content of the music score using the keyboard and get spoken hints of the content.

The VIModule represents the WEDELMUSIC System’s extensions for visually impaired persons. However, the module contains tools that need to be accessible from sighted persons as well, such as the Spoken Music Module and the Braille Printing Module. Aside from these tools, the main role of the VIModule is to render the WEDELMUSIC Editor’s functionality accessible to VIs.

It makes implicit or explicit use of the following services:

The WEDELMUSIC VIModule itself is divided into the following independent modules and components: