Accessibility

Jamori is for everyone.

Jamori is built to be used by people who cannot see the screen well, cannot hear well, use a keyboard or switch instead of touch, or need things explained slowly. We aim for the WCAG 2.2 AA guidelines wherever they apply to a music app. This page says honestly what works and what does not yet.

What works

• Screen readers. Buttons, steps and sliders have spoken names and values, for example "Step 5, accent" or "Level 80%". Hints are announced as they appear.
• Keyboard. Tab reaches every step, and in the melody grid the arrow keys move between notes. Enter adds or removes a hit, Shift and Enter make an accent, and the number keys 1 to 9 play the pads.
• Seeing the beat. Settings in You can make the phone vibrate on the first beat of each bar, or make the screen edge glow on the beat, for people who feel music more than hear it.
• Calmer motion and more contrast. Jamori follows your phone's "reduce motion" and "increase contrast" settings. Text meets the AA contrast level.
• One step at a time. Lessons show only what to tap next and explain why, at your own pace.

What does not work yet

• The touch instruments (sitar strings, hand drums, the touch pad) need gestures. Use the step grid or the pads instead; they do the same job with a keyboard or screen reader.
• We have checked Jamori with automatic tools, but not yet with people using VoiceOver on an iPhone or TalkBack on Android every day. That testing is next.
• Jamori is only in English so far. More languages are planned.

Tell us

If something is hard or impossible to use, we want to know: what you tried, which phone and which screen reader or setting you use. The Help page says how to reach us.