[Athen] Online Accessibility and Music Courses?

[Will Pines via athen-list]

I consulted with another institution a few years ago (2022) about a
visually impaired student who was music major. The student was familiar
with Sibelius but the instructor used Finale. I remember working with
instructor to see of Finale files could be exported / imported into
Sibelius and vice versa. The instructor used Finale to make music examples
that were  incorporated into PDFs – they are combined with instructions, so
it was not simply a music page. One of the workaround was to export the
music xml so student could read using screenreader in Sibelius and student
could also compose and export the music xml for instructor to view in
Finale.


Best,

*WILL PINES*, *Disability Specialist*

Accessible Technology Specialist

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM Matson, Eric (ecmatson at uidaho.edu) via
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> Hey all,

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> Our Music Department is just starting to think about how to meet the

> upcoming Title II rules, and most of my experience with music has been

> custom created alt-formats for a specific student, so not sure about best

> practices around music?  Music scores posted online seem to be their main

> question right now.

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> UIdaho doesn’t have a central accessibility policy or road map to how we

> plan on making online content accessible, which means lots of random

> questions for me. Yay… 😊

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> Thanks in advance for any help!

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