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Executive summary
- The Accessibility Working Group aims to address key aspects concerning provision of music for the print impaired in the digital age.
- The Working Group hopes to provide a review of the current situation; some explanation of different approaches to describing accessible music; dissemination of the key emergent themes and technologies; and information about the main contributors, events and problematic areas.
- The area of music encoding is moving towards greater unification and co-ordination of effort with the activities and strategies being pursued by the Music Network. For organizations providing support and alternative format materials for print impaired people this offers the exciting challenge of bringing together several disparate activities and building a far stronger future for coding activities in this field.
- It is difficult to discuss the needs of print impaired people in direct relation to market terminologies, but it would be fair to say that music in all its forms has particular significance to print impaired people. Interaction with music scores has until now been somewhat limited, and the main provision of music in alternative formats has been through Braille Music, which has been in production in many countries for over a century.
- The Accessibility Working Group will address the main areas in a series of workshops and meetings; disseminate information about new developments and tools; and contribute to the adoption of an inclusive Design For All approach in this field.
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