musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Accessible way to find and fix Visual Overlaps
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Description
Your idea
A way to know with a screen reader when an item overlaps. Possibilities could be a sound (like a buzz for spelling error) when you move on to an item that is overlapping or a specific plug-in/tool or shortcut key to jump to the next overlapping element. When you press F2 or context menu edit element it could announce what is overlapping and where, e.g. overlapping bar line on left, overlapping note above", so you have some idea which way to nudge it. It should then announce "not overlapping" when it is fixed.
Problem to be solved
Blind users who want to make professional looking scores for sighted students, colleagues, band members etc do not know when items are overlapping. We need a way to easily identify these and hear how to fix it.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by locating MuseScore's accessibility and visual-overlap handling, then define how overlapping elements should be detected, announced, navigated, and confirmed as fixed for screen-reader users.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100