Music Software Accessibility Project Tracker
People keep building tools that make music software work for everyone — add-ons, overlays, editors, converters, whole DAWs — and then those tools scatter across GitHub, forums, and group chats where nobody can find them again. This page is the index that was missing.
Scope is music creation: recording, mixing, amp and effect modelling, hardware editors, tuners, notation, and braille music. Listening apps and streaming players are out. Everything here is listed with whatever links exist — source, homepage, or download.
Every entry carries a Price line. Most of this work is free, but a free add-on for a paid application still costs something to start using, so the price covers what the project asks for and anything it can't run without. Figures were checked in September 2026 and are in US dollars; treat them as a signpost, not a quote.
Reviews, compatibility notes, and tested-with details are coming. For now this is a directory, not an endorsement: entries are recorded, not vetted.
On this page
- Recording, mixing, and DAWs
- Amps, plugins, and effects
- Hardware editors and device control
- Tuners, practice, and learning
- Scores, tab, and notation
- Braille music
- Utilities
- Community and resources
- Submit a project
Recording, mixing, and DAWs
OSARA
Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application. The cornerstone of accessible music production on Windows and macOS — it makes REAPER speak, exposing tracks, items, envelopes, automation, and the mixer to a screen reader, and adds hundreds of keyboard actions. Most other projects in this section assume you have it.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
Rabbit
One executable that installs or updates REAPER, OSARA, SWS, ReaPack, and ReaKontrol together, in the right order. Turns a fiddly multi-download setup into a single run.
Price: Free, open source. Installs REAPER ($60 personal, 60-day free evaluation); the extensions it fetches are free.
ReaperAccessible (and Frabbit)
A French-language hub of REAPER accessibility resources, with Frabbit as its one-click installer for REAPER, OSARA, SWS, ReaPack, and ReaKontrol bundled with the site's own resource packs.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
AccessiChords
Chord injection scripts for REAPER. Build and insert chords by name from the keyboard instead of drawing notes into a piano roll.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
Properties Ribbon
A ReaScript suite that gives OSARA users a fast, consistent way to read and adjust properties of tracks, items, sends, and more — one interface instead of hunting through separate dialogs.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER and OSARA.
ReaperVC
Configurable voice control for REAPER — drive the DAW by speaking commands, useful when your hands are on an instrument.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
Raven
An Ableton-style session view for REAPER built to be driven entirely by keyboard and screen reader — clip launching and loop-based arrangement without the grid being a picture.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
OSARA for Linux
A port of OSARA to Linux, routing speech to Orca through Speech Dispatcher. Early, but it's the main route to an accessible REAPER outside Windows and macOS.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
Mespotine Accessibility Pack
A collection of accessibility scripts and tools for REAPER from the author of the ReaScript API documentation.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER ($60 personal, $225 commercial, 60-day free evaluation).
SoundFirst PRO
A controller driver that turns a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A-Series keyboard into a tactile mixing surface for REAPER — mix by feel and by ear rather than by looking at a screen.
Price: Free, open source. Needs REAPER and a Komplete Kontrol A-Series keyboard.
TRIAZ library browser script
A REAPER script that makes the Wave Alchemy TRIAZ drum library browsable with a screen reader via ReaSamplOmatic5000.
Price: Free. Needs REAPER and the Wave Alchemy TRIAZ library (paid).
Logic Magician
A set of Keyboard Maestro macros for Logic Pro that collapses common actions down to a single keypress, so the work happens at the keyboard instead of through menus. It rides alongside VoiceOver rather than replacing it, and installs the LogicKeyboardNinja key map with it. Needs Logic Pro 11.1 or later on macOS Sonoma 14.4 or later.
Price: Free. Needs Keyboard Maestro (US$36, free trial) and Logic Pro ($199.99 one-time, or $12.99/month in Apple Creator Studio).
Elion
An open-source DAW designed for screen reader users from the first commit, rather than retrofitted afterwards. In active development.
Price: Free, open source. Standalone — no host application to buy.
NVDA GoldWave add-on
An NVDA add-on that fills in what the GoldWave audio editor doesn't expose on its own — selection points, cursor position, and editing feedback spoken as you work.
Price: Free, open source. Needs GoldWave ($19, free evaluation) and NVDA (free).
Amps, plugins, and effects
Neural DSP Accessible
Control panels for five Neural DSP plugins — Archetype Plini X, Archetype Tim Henson X, Darkglass Ultimate, Mantra, and OMEGA Ampworks Granophyre. Every knob becomes a labelled control that speaks real values ("+4.8 dB", not a percentage), with working preset navigation, driven live through REAPER.
Price: Free, open source. Needs the Neural DSP plugins themselves (paid) and REAPER.
GitHub — Big Saurus project
Accessible Neural Amp Modeler
A fork of the Neural Amp Modeler plugin that makes profile and impulse-response loading reachable without OCR — the part of stock NAM that has always been a wall. Builds for macOS and Windows.
Price: Free, open source — as is Neural Amp Modeler itself.
VST helper scripts by crisspro
A set of small AutoHotkey scripts that make specific plugins operable with a screen reader: HY-ESG, Waves IR-L, Grind Machine II, KeyZone Classic, and NadIR. Narrow by design — each one solves a single stubborn interface.
Price: Free. Each script needs its own plugin, which is paid.
Hardware editors and device control
Axe-Edit Accessibility
An NVDA add-on for Fractal Audio's Axe-Edit III. Arrow keys move around the preset grid, Enter activates blocks, values speak as you change them, checkboxes work from the keyboard, and there are jump keys for positions on the grid.
Price: Free, open source. Needs NVDA and Axe-Edit (both free) and Fractal hardware.
GitHub — Big Saurus project
AxeBlock EDIT
A real-time MIDI editor for Fractal Audio hardware — Axe-Fx III, FM9, FM3, VP4, and the Axe-Fx II family — built with VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type from the start. iPad now; Android and desktop planned. Paid app, currently in beta.
Price: US$9.99 at launch. Needs a supported Fractal device. Currently in beta.
POD Express Accessible Editor
A free, fully accessible editor for the Line 6 POD Express, covering the deep parameters the pedal's own interface hides — including high and low pass. Works with screen readers, keyboard, and mouse. Single self-contained download.
Price: Free. Needs a Line 6 POD Express pedal.
GitHub — Big Saurus project
Morningstar Editor MCP
A server for controlling a Morningstar MC8 Pro MIDI foot controller over USB SysEx — bank and preset programming through a scriptable interface rather than the web editor.
Price: Free, open source. Needs a Morningstar MC8 Pro.
GitHub — Big Saurus project
Axe-Fx III SysEx Maps
An open reference of reverse-engineered Axe-Fx III SysEx and parameter maps — the master parameter map, real-gear to model maps, a display-label index, enums, and protocol notes. Raw material for anyone building their own Fractal tooling.
Price: Free. Reference data, nothing to install.
GitHub — Big Saurus project
AZ Accessible OSC (AOSC)
Makes RME audio interfaces reachable from the keyboard, which TotalMix FX isn't on its own. It drives the interface over Open Sound Control and presents it as labelled buttons, sliders, and faders. Free, Windows, and long since finished rather than actively developed — the last changes date to 2019.
Price: Free. Needs an RME audio interface.
Tuners, practice, and learning
Centsability
A fully accessible chromatic guitar tuner for Windows. The complete tuner is a free beta; Premium adds guided tuning and reference tones, with iOS and Android in progress.
Price: Free beta on Windows, complete and unrestricted. A paid Premium edition is planned.
Product page and download — Big Saurus project
Chooner
A guitar tuner that reports pitch by ear rather than by meter — the closer you are to the note, the higher the octave it plays back. Runs in a browser, and also ships as AU and VST3 plugins for Windows and macOS so it can sit on a track in your DAW.
Price: Free — both the web version and the AU/VST3 plugins.
NoTreble
A music learning project built around listening rather than looking: screen-reader-friendly music ledgers, ear training exercises, and theory lessons that lead with auditory detail instead of chord charts.
Price: Free, open source.
Accessible Guitar Reference
A text-first reference of chords, power chords, and triads written in precise language a screen reader can actually read out — no diagrams to interpret.
Price: Free, open source.
Maqamusic
An NVDA add-on that turns the computer keyboard into an Arabic maqam instrument, covering the quarter-tone modal system, played and announced through NVDA. Includes a primer for players coming from Western tuning.
Price: Free, open source. Needs NVDA (free).
Scores, tab, and notation
ScoreReader
A Windows application for reading and memorising music: loads MusicXML, MIDI, and Guitar Pro files, and can read an Ultimate Guitar page directly. Includes a tuner and speech recognition for hands-free operation. Tested with NVDA.
Price: Free. Windows only.
Talking Scores
A free, open-source website that converts MusicXML into a spoken and text description of the score, with audio of the passage alongside the description, and navigation by section, bar, and part. Best suited to simpler piano scores today, and still in development.
Price: Free, open source. Runs in a browser.
Talking Guitar Tabs
Converts MusicXML into screen-reader-friendly HTML aimed specifically at guitar tab, following the approach the Talking Scores project took for staff notation.
Price: Free, open source.
Accessible MusicXML Reader
A browser-based MusicXML score reader that keeps the visual score and screen-reader navigation in sync, so a sighted teacher and a screen-reader user can follow the same page.
Price: Free, open source. Runs in a browser.
Copyist
Turns what you actually played in a DAW into a readable score — accessibility-first MIDI to MusicXML, aimed at handing other musicians something they can use.
Price: Free, open source.
MuseScore NVDA add-on
An NVDA add-on that improves the experience of working in the MuseScore notation editor.
Price: Free. MuseScore and NVDA are both free too.
Braille music
Braille Music Compiler (BMC)
Reads braille music notation and compiles it — the long-running reference implementation for parsing braille music, from the author of FreeDots.
Price: Free, open source.
FreeDots
Transcribes MusicXML into braille music, and plays the score back while you read it. One of the earliest free tools in this space and still widely referenced.
Price: Free, open source.
Braille Music Notator
An online utility for creating and editing braille music scores directly, rather than converting from print notation.
Price: Free, open source. Runs in a browser.
BrailleOrch
A Python tool for converting in both directions between MusicXML and braille music format.
Price: Free, open source.
Brailix
A pluggable braille compiler covering text, mathematics, and music through a shared intermediate representation. The core has no third-party dependencies; languages and formats install as adapters.
Price: Free, open source.
DottedNotes
A braille music conversion utility, in active development.
Price: Free, open source.
MusicBrailleRAP
Music score transcription for the BrailleRAP open-source braille embosser — the software half of a build-it-yourself route to embossed scores.
Price: Free, open source. Embossing needs a BrailleRAP, which is self-built.
Braille music syntax for Sublime Text
Syntax highlighting and editing support for ASCII braille music files in Sublime Text, from the German Central Library for the Blind.
Price: Free, open source. Sublime Text needs a paid licence, with an unlimited free evaluation.
Dancing Dots
The long-standing commercial suite in this space, founded in 1992 by blind musician Bill McCann: GOODFEEL translates print scores to braille music, Lime is the notation editor, Lime Aloud speaks scores aloud, and CakeTalking adds JAWS scripting for the SONAR DAW. Paid software.
Price: Paid, commercial — the products are sold separately and prices are not published on the open site. Check their store.
Utilities
Reset Audio
Restarts macOS Core Audio from a single keystroke and tells you audibly whether it worked — for when the audio stack wedges mid-session and the usual fix is a dialog you can't reach.
Price: Free, open source. macOS.
Community and resources
Sound Without Sight
A community hub for musicians, audio engineers, and industry people working with sight loss, hosted by the Technology Association of Visually Impaired People. Knowledge hub, forums, and monthly meet-ups.
Price: Free.
REAPER Accessibility
The documentation and community site behind OSARA — guides, keymaps, and the reference material for getting REAPER set up and working.
Price: Free.
The Blind Mac Pro
Tips, tricks, and tutorials for running macOS with VoiceOver — general Mac fluency rather than music specifically, which is what most audio work on a Mac rests on anyway. Written and filmed by LogicBand.
Price: Free.
The Blind Logic Pro
A resource hub for learning Logic Pro with VoiceOver — written tutorials, a podcast, and a video channel, from the same author as The Blind Mac Pro. Also the home of Logic Magician.
Price: Free.
MIDI Association — Music Accessibility Standard SIG
The MIDI Association's special interest group working on accessibility standards for music software and hardware, so this stops being a per-app rescue mission.
Price: Free.
Submit a project
Built something, or know a project that belongs here? Send it over — yours or anyone else's, finished or half-built. A link is enough; a sentence about what it does is better.
Corrections are just as welcome. If a description here is wrong, or a project has moved, say so and it gets fixed.