Music
A Universal Language
Music Reaches Through When Nothing Else Can
"I grew up in a lovely home at the edge of the picturesque and lush Alborz mountains. My elegant, eloquent, and debonair father was a prominent judge, and this was his favorite classical piece. A few years ago, the man of a million fascinating anecdotes acquiesced to the silent, cruel ravages of Alzheimer's. The sight of my mom, his wife of 60 years, and this song were the only things that brought a twinkle to his increasingly blank, distant gaze. The power of music is immeasurable. It penetrates deep into the depths of our soul and weaves into the very fabric of who we are. I miss my dad so much! I wish I could have just one more evening with him. I would play this version of the piece as the soundtrack of such a most precious occasion. I think he would approve."
HZ in the comments section as accessed 5 March 2019 | remarking on the video HAUSER Published on Nov 28, 2017
Music Reaches Through When No Else Can
Digitizing Really And Truly Lets Us Connect
"Digitizing" music makes it accessible on multiple levels. Digitizing makes music portable, so that it may be brought even to those in hospice, nursing homes, or hospitals. Digitizing means that small players may be used so that the weight of the player is low enough for even aged or weak hands to hold. Digitizing means that mulitple copies may be made cheaply, and the music itself becomes affordable to those who would otherwise be able to afford it.
So, the very act of digitizing music makes it accessible to many who would otherwise not have access to it -- as consumers. But what, if you are a creator?
For The Creators: Making Music Accessible
Technology "pairings" are important in enabling assistive technology to read music. There is a coding standard, MusicML, which needs to be incorporated so that screen readers that have been properly set up to read music can do so. The pairing is extremely important. Certain readers are made to be paired with certain file formats. If a file is formatted one way, it is meant to play music. If the file is formatted another way, then that same file can have the words read instead of the music played.
To be a creator of accessible music that may be shared, you have to dig a little deeper behind what is going on behind the scenes. The coding language that formats the tune is not the same coding languages that formats the text, and screen readers need to be told which is which, depending upon which you want played.
Music Not Words
Words Not Music
How-To Examples
The videos below give a sense of what is involved in making files accessible.
Resources
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PlayScore
Works for Tablets |As accessed 14 February 2019
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NOVA PDF
Create PDF from Extensible Markup Language (XML) files|As accessed 13 February 2019
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Online Converter
Free Online Conveter |As accessed 13 February 2019
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Musitek
Export Music to XML|As accessed 13 February 2019
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musescoreHome Page for Musescore; download is free.
As accessed 13 February 2019
- Musescore Issue #10238
Support for screen readers is broken (Resolved) | As accessed 13 Feb 2019


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--- layout: post title: Auto sanitized templates with Erubis categories: - releases - tools author: marcel published: true date: 2006-03-16 06:24:00.000000000 +00:00 ---
Last month on the Rails core mailing list, a thread popped up (that went on and on) wherein the idea was proposed that rhtml templates should automatically sanitize output by default. After much back and forth, David suggested those in favor redirect their energies toward a working plugin.
Enter stage left, Erubis. It’s a customized implementation of eRuby that provides a handful of features, notably that <%= %>
tags automatically sanitize output. You use <%== %>
if you don’t want to sanitize the output. For all those who wish rhtml files were sanitized by default, here is your solution.
Configure your Rails apps to use Erubis templates with ActionView::Base::register_template_handler
.


--- layout: post title: Rails 3 is coming... published: true date: 2010-09-01 categories: [] posterous_url: http://blog.hungerandthirstdesign.com/post/1047895838/rails-3-is-coming posterous_slug: post/1047895838/rails-3-is-coming ---
Beta 4 is out!
Also a big step for Bundler which just hit 1.0.0.beta1
So much coming soon!


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