Low Vision Lime: Solution For Low Vision Musicians to Perform, Edit, and Print Music Notation

The project explores the feasibility of enhancing the well-established Lime notation software with features to benefit musicians with low vision. Enhancements include the presentation of musical measures for the low vision reader. Adding functionality by offering user-definable settings in adjusting magnification of staff notation, colors, and screen contrast, building on Windows accessibility features and third-party magnification utilities where necessary; options to view results on a large flat-panel monitor mounted on a conventional music stand; and foot switching controls. The result is stand-alone software that allows the scanning/importing of scores, reformatting of layouts to permit musicians with low vision to read and perform the score, and accessible options for editing and printing with appropriate magnification and scrolling.