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Blind musician Jason Dasent worked with Roland to make a guide for V-STAGE
Jason Dasent, a blind, UK-based Trinidadian musician, producer, and globally recognized accessibility consultant, has teamed up with the Roland Future Design Lab. The result: a comprehensive accessibility guide to every control, jack, widget, and function on the V-STAGE performance keyboard. More like this — a plea to the whole industry. What’s interesting about this is […]
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Video guide to accessibility in Ableton Move, Move Everything – Andre Louis
Unofficial screen reader support in Ableton Move may be new, but it’s already a revelation. Andre Louis, a visually impaired musician and technologist/artist extraordinaire, takes us on a tour of Move Everything. That’s must-watch material, I hope, for sighted users and developers, too, to understand how these features work for visually impaired users.
Peter Kirn - March 8, 2026
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Move Everything hacks Ableton Move for custom devices — and accessibility
Move Everything is a hack for Move that lets you run custom synths, effects, and controllers alongside stock Move functions. But the truly momentous development is that its creator has added screen reader support, which makes Move the first truly standalone groovebox open to blind and visually impaired users.
Peter Kirn - February 19, 2026
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Maxess, free externals for Max and Max for Live accessibility, available now
Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025
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Flufs, powerful loudness analysis tool, is designed for accessibility
Peter Kirn - March 5, 2025
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Ableton Move is a hit for blind and low vision users; more like this, please
Peter Kirn - February 10, 2025
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From Ancient Greek to Znameny Chant, a world beyond Western notation
Peter Kirn - August 28, 2024
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