Hello all the KVR Audio readers,
On Wednesday, March 5th, 2024), we had MASSIG meeting with Juho Tuomainen, (WG Chair), Athan Billias (the MASSIG WG Scribe), Vanessa Faschi (Backup Chair) from Audio Modeling), Roli from Yamaha Welfare Center, Peter Jonas from Musescore Limited, Paul Bacon and also Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of RNIB present at the meeting. We discussed about the importance of user roles, our resource's status (the Google Sheets document where they're in) and other important key aspects of the standard. The resources Google Sheets document has got some important accessibility-related content, such as websites of plugins and screen readers. Stay tuned for more information!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
Music Accessibility Standard (MAS)
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Hello all KVR readers,
Yesterday (Wednesday, March 20th, 2024) we had a MASSIG meeting with Juho Tuomainen, the MASSIG Chair, Vanessa Faschi (MASSIG Backup Chair from Audio Modeling), Michael Strickland from Florida State University, Samuel Prouse, a PHD (Doctor of Philosophy) from the University of Sportsmouth United Kingdom (UK), Brian, Paul Janoski, a consultant/software developer and a musician and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of RNIB and the founder of Sound Without Sight, present on the meeting. First off, we introduced the way of working in the MASSIG for our new members (Samuel, Paul and Brian) who had their first meeting. Also, we talked more about user stories and especially the importance of the focus order (ie. the order in which the User Interface (UI) elements are focused when a computer keyboard (with or without a screen reader) is used for moving between the User Interface elements), such as between the items of a track panel (ie between different tracks). I am looking forward to hearing more updates from our proggress in our next meeting held in Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
Yesterday (Wednesday, March 20th, 2024) we had a MASSIG meeting with Juho Tuomainen, the MASSIG Chair, Vanessa Faschi (MASSIG Backup Chair from Audio Modeling), Michael Strickland from Florida State University, Samuel Prouse, a PHD (Doctor of Philosophy) from the University of Sportsmouth United Kingdom (UK), Brian, Paul Janoski, a consultant/software developer and a musician and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of RNIB and the founder of Sound Without Sight, present on the meeting. First off, we introduced the way of working in the MASSIG for our new members (Samuel, Paul and Brian) who had their first meeting. Also, we talked more about user stories and especially the importance of the focus order (ie. the order in which the User Interface (UI) elements are focused when a computer keyboard (with or without a screen reader) is used for moving between the User Interface elements), such as between the items of a track panel (ie between different tracks). I am looking forward to hearing more updates from our proggress in our next meeting held in Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
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- KVRist
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Hello all KVR Forum Topic Readers,
on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024, we had a Music Accessibility Standerd Special Interest Group (MASSIG) meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (the WG Backup Chair) from Audio Modeling, Athan Billias, the President of The MIDI Association, Mike Kent from AmeNote, Inc and Brian from Riban ltd present on the meeting. At this time, we discussed the May is MIDI Month Webinar plans for the Music Accessibility Standard. We also started creating a document where people can put their presentation ideas for the Music Accessibility Standard Webinar. Finally, there also was little discussion regarding the user stories we have been creating in past few weeks. All in all, it was very nice to meet passionate and motivated people on the meeting and I am looking forward to meeting my MASSIG peers in two weeks! Stay tuned for more information!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024, we had a Music Accessibility Standerd Special Interest Group (MASSIG) meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (the WG Backup Chair) from Audio Modeling, Athan Billias, the President of The MIDI Association, Mike Kent from AmeNote, Inc and Brian from Riban ltd present on the meeting. At this time, we discussed the May is MIDI Month Webinar plans for the Music Accessibility Standard. We also started creating a document where people can put their presentation ideas for the Music Accessibility Standard Webinar. Finally, there also was little discussion regarding the user stories we have been creating in past few weeks. All in all, it was very nice to meet passionate and motivated people on the meeting and I am looking forward to meeting my MASSIG peers in two weeks! Stay tuned for more information!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
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- KVRist
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Hello All KVR Audio Forum Thread Readers,
On Wednesday, April 17th, 2024, we had a Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group (MASSIG) meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (WG Backup Chair), Athan Billias (The President of The MIDI Association and Scribe), Michael Stricklan, Mike Kent from AmeNote, Samuel Sprouse (a pHD from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom), Brian Walton from Riban ltd, Dice Naito from FSK Audio and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of the RNIB present there. We continued deepening to the topic of the user stories from different points of view. Furthermore, we also discussed the plans for a Music Accessibility Standard Webinar which is scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 25th, 2024 at 10 AM Pacific Time (note: 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 18.00 UTC 8 PM UK time) and 8 PM Finnish Time (Eastern Europe Summer Time, EEST). We also discussed how we could gather user stories using technologies for capturing audio, video and in written (textual) form. Now, we encourage the whole KVR Audio community to send the user stories in those formats (ie either as an audiofile like an .mp3 or an .ogg file or as a text file such as .txt or .docx) to info@midi.org. I am looking forward to meeting the MASSIG people on May 29!
Kind Regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
On Wednesday, April 17th, 2024, we had a Music Accessibility Standard Special Interest Group (MASSIG) meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Vanessa Faschi (WG Backup Chair), Athan Billias (The President of The MIDI Association and Scribe), Michael Stricklan, Mike Kent from AmeNote, Samuel Sprouse (a pHD from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom), Brian Walton from Riban ltd, Dice Naito from FSK Audio and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of the RNIB present there. We continued deepening to the topic of the user stories from different points of view. Furthermore, we also discussed the plans for a Music Accessibility Standard Webinar which is scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 25th, 2024 at 10 AM Pacific Time (note: 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 18.00 UTC 8 PM UK time) and 8 PM Finnish Time (Eastern Europe Summer Time, EEST). We also discussed how we could gather user stories using technologies for capturing audio, video and in written (textual) form. Now, we encourage the whole KVR Audio community to send the user stories in those formats (ie either as an audiofile like an .mp3 or an .ogg file or as a text file such as .txt or .docx) to info@midi.org. I am looking forward to meeting the MASSIG people on May 29!
Kind Regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
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- KVRist
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Hello all KVR Audio Members,
On Wednesday (May 1st, 2024) we had a massig meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Athan Billias (MIDI Association Executive Board), Samuel Prouse, a
pHD from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Brian Walton from Riban Ltd, Mike Kent from Amenote and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of the RNIB present there. First off, we discussed how to collect user stories from interested people (audio software and hardware users and developers). The purpose of these user stories is to provide clarification on the wants and needs of users in a variety of contexts where a standardized mechanism for Accessibility is used.
User Roles
These are functional roles assumed by a person or entity using MIDI data. The following roles are not clearly defined yet, but can help us begin collecting user stories based on an intuitive understanding of the terms. User roles are not distinct people. A single person can occupy multiple roles in the same User Story. Nor are these personas; a fictional character created to represent a user type. A wide variety of personas may match a role. For example a child learning Accessibility, and a university student studying orchestration are both students (ST) for our purposes here. Visual (e.g., color blindness) Motor/mobility (e.g., wheelchair-user concerns)
Auditory (hearing difficulties) Seizures (especially photosensitive epilepsy) Learning/cognitive (e.g., dyslexia)
There are also roles for different companies. For example, a use case could be something like " I am a developer of plugins who uses Juce and I know that Juce has accessibility features, but I want to know how best to use those features to achieve the best accessibility possible. The answer for that user story could be as simple as this.
Please watch this video from the Accessibility Workshop at ADC 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB900naLHHo&t=4872s
Two of us (Samuel and I) tested the SpeakPipe page with the MIDI Association-related text on it, encouraging users to post their user stories through SpeakPipe. The test results showed that the user site with one button ("Start/Stop Recording") and the text was fully
accessible with both NVDA screen reader (tested on the latest consumer versions of Firefox and Chrome with NVDA version 2023.3.3) and JAWS (tested on the
latest consumer versions of Firefox and Chrome with JAWS 2024.2403.3) on a Windows 11 Professional 64 bit version. Samuel tested the page on Mac OS with VoiceOver and it worked fine for him. Here is a link to leave your user stories as an audio file (https://www.speakpipe.com/MusicAccessibilityUserStories).
If you want to submit your accessibility user story another way, just send an email (which can include attachments for example Word Doc or PDF) to info@midi.org. Also, we discussed about the accessibility issues around the JUCE audio application and plugin development framework and Surge XT which is a free and open source synthesizer build (or made) with the JUCE development framework (nb: a framework is a set of tools to develop audio plugins and software like a toolbox with a hammer, nails and a screwer).
I am looking forward to meeting the MASSIG group on May 15th which our last meeting before the MASSIG webinar on Saturday, May 25th at 10 AM Pacific Time (8 pm Finnish Time (EET))!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
On Wednesday (May 1st, 2024) we had a massig meeting with Juho Tuomainen (WG Chair), Athan Billias (MIDI Association Executive Board), Samuel Prouse, a
pHD from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Brian Walton from Riban Ltd, Mike Kent from Amenote and Jay Pocknell, a Music Support Officer of the Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Team of the RNIB present there. First off, we discussed how to collect user stories from interested people (audio software and hardware users and developers). The purpose of these user stories is to provide clarification on the wants and needs of users in a variety of contexts where a standardized mechanism for Accessibility is used.
User Roles
These are functional roles assumed by a person or entity using MIDI data. The following roles are not clearly defined yet, but can help us begin collecting user stories based on an intuitive understanding of the terms. User roles are not distinct people. A single person can occupy multiple roles in the same User Story. Nor are these personas; a fictional character created to represent a user type. A wide variety of personas may match a role. For example a child learning Accessibility, and a university student studying orchestration are both students (ST) for our purposes here. Visual (e.g., color blindness) Motor/mobility (e.g., wheelchair-user concerns)
Auditory (hearing difficulties) Seizures (especially photosensitive epilepsy) Learning/cognitive (e.g., dyslexia)
There are also roles for different companies. For example, a use case could be something like " I am a developer of plugins who uses Juce and I know that Juce has accessibility features, but I want to know how best to use those features to achieve the best accessibility possible. The answer for that user story could be as simple as this.
Please watch this video from the Accessibility Workshop at ADC 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB900naLHHo&t=4872s
Two of us (Samuel and I) tested the SpeakPipe page with the MIDI Association-related text on it, encouraging users to post their user stories through SpeakPipe. The test results showed that the user site with one button ("Start/Stop Recording") and the text was fully
accessible with both NVDA screen reader (tested on the latest consumer versions of Firefox and Chrome with NVDA version 2023.3.3) and JAWS (tested on the
latest consumer versions of Firefox and Chrome with JAWS 2024.2403.3) on a Windows 11 Professional 64 bit version. Samuel tested the page on Mac OS with VoiceOver and it worked fine for him. Here is a link to leave your user stories as an audio file (https://www.speakpipe.com/MusicAccessibilityUserStories).
If you want to submit your accessibility user story another way, just send an email (which can include attachments for example Word Doc or PDF) to info@midi.org. Also, we discussed about the accessibility issues around the JUCE audio application and plugin development framework and Surge XT which is a free and open source synthesizer build (or made) with the JUCE development framework (nb: a framework is a set of tools to develop audio plugins and software like a toolbox with a hammer, nails and a screwer).
I am looking forward to meeting the MASSIG group on May 15th which our last meeting before the MASSIG webinar on Saturday, May 25th at 10 AM Pacific Time (8 pm Finnish Time (EET))!
Kind regards,
Juho Tuomainen, WG Chair
