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I do wonder just how serious about #accessibility is the team behind the MuseScore software. At least on Mac OS things are broken to the point of making it really quite counter-productive to use it. Broken tooltips, strange keyboard navigation, unfinished dialogs, etc, etc. I've been checking for updates for ever hoping to see some progress, but progress I see none.
in reply to victor tsaran

Heyah there. I spent some time contributing issues and suggestions regarding MuseScore Studio accessibility while I was at Eastman School of Music over the last year and a half and was studying the BANA Music Braille code manuals to gain requisite knowledge to make recommendations regarding MSS' built-in Music Braille support. However, I never had a chance to test things on a Mac, I have since begun focusing elsewhere (I felt the only meaningful way to achieve progress at the speed I would have liked would have involved me writing code, something which I do not yet have the skillset for), and others, primarily The DAISY Consortium, RNIB, and the Sao Mai Center for the Blind, quite simply beat me to the punch and have far more resources, knowledge, and development skills than I.

With that being said, hopefully I can help. Apologies if I'm providing you with information which you already know. MuseScore Studio's keyboard navigation scheme is quite weird and nonstandard on every platform. In general, F6/Shift+F6 or grave/shift+grave moves you through whole sections of the program, tab/shift+tab gets you through different controls, and arrows move ou through buttons, boxes, etc. VoiceOver nav commands will likely not be useful anywhere in MuseScore Studio (ugh). With that being said, I'm pretty sure there are several professional musicians who use MuseScore Studio 4.

There's more info available both in the MuseScore Studio 4 handbook, where there are full sections on accessibility and keyboard navigation, and there is a speciffic page on the MuseScore.org website with accessibility tips and tricks which might be of use.

musescore.org/en/accessibility

Finally, a mailing list set up by a blind music educator from New Zealand has become the defacto community resource as well as a place for users and some community contributors to discuss issues and fixes. It can be found here:

groups.io/g/MuseScoreAccessibi…

A MuseScore Studio 4 WhatsApp group monitored by developers and users is also available. there is also a MuseScore Studio Discord server where developers and users discuss and where you might be able to get some traction for accessibility fixes. Please PM me for links.

Hope this helps, and best of luck.

in reply to victor tsaran

Have you tried Sibelius? It also has a free version called Sibelius First that supports up to 4 staves.
in reply to victor tsaran

Also the best advice I can give about both MuseScore as well as Sibelius is that do not use VO cursor. Just use it as like windows app with tab/shifttabs, arrows, space, return, escape, etc. Using VOCursor will ensure you'll get into trouble. lol
in reply to Chi Kim

@chikim Good point. Though in MuseScore’s case, there are just so many other weird issues outside of the navigation.
in reply to victor tsaran

Yeah I definitely hear you about MuseScore on Mac. I can get it to work, but I have to fight a lot with focuss issues and such.