musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Lines to Read Range when you Alt arrow on to the Edit Panel

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Since May 20, 2025.

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Description

Your idea

Using NVDA screen reader:
Currently when you Alt arrow on to a panel to adjust a hairpin, ottava, rit, pedal mark, volta, etc they either state their name or in a few cases the screen reader says nothing at all. It would be much more helpful if this stated for example hairpin crescendo starts bar X beat X and ends bar X beat X.

Problem to be solved

Trying to find the end is very slow work currently listening to each notes full description after that point to find where it will say “end of hairpin crescendo”. This would also make it easier to check whether you have adjusted the length correctly without having to navigate to the end to check, possibly multiple times if trying to count how many beats to extend by.

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Additional context

This is an accessibility issue affecting blind users using screen readers.

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