@inproceedings{47c86e60a6f6490eaa6ef2e50909e02e,
title = "Non-visual beats: Redesigning the Groove Pizza",
abstract = "Unlike past eras in which select few had the means and connections to compose music, today almost anyone can engage in meaningful music making and craft their own compositions thanks in part to the ubiquity of affordable and easy-to-use music software. However, this advancement has not fully extended to non-sighted users as evidenced by online communities seeking and offering help and third party companies that have stepped in to fill a void of accessibility features. To address the lack of alternative input modalities and pervasive visual design of music creation software, we redesigned the Groove Pizza [12], a popular online rhythm application. This work describes our implementation and its use of custom keyboard mappings for sequencing rhythm, screen reader output using text-to-speech and sonification, and global audio settings designed for different use cases.",
keywords = "Accessibility, Blindness, Music creation, Music technology, Visual impairments",
author = "William Payne and Alex Xu and Amy Hurst and {Alex Ruthmann}, S.",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019 ; Conference date: 28-10-2019 Through 30-10-2019",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1145/3308561.3354590",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "651--654",
booktitle = "ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility",
}