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2 results found tagged music accessibility.
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Making Multimedia Accessible: What Researchers Are Learning About Audio, Video, Images, and Data
From AI-generated audio descriptions to customisable captions, the research on accessible multimedia content reveals how much the one-size-fits-all model fails. This article examines what researchers have found across approximately 150 papers on audio description, captioning, image descriptions, data visualisation, sign language, music, documents, and creative production — and the consistent finding that disabled users want control, customisation, and agency rather than standardised solutions imposed on their behalf.
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The Right to Shape Sound: How Accessibility Research Is Rethinking Music Composition and Performance
Music is an inherently aural art form — so why is music technology so deeply inaccessible? This article examines 29 peer-reviewed papers on making music composition and performance accessible, from the bleak software landscape facing blind producers to vibrotactile alternatives that free the audio channel, text-based composition tools, brain-controlled robotic performance arms, Deaf sonic agency, and the consistent finding that community-designed music technology outperforms external design.