Yes, you can use cori with a screen reader. From version 9.0.0, the app for iPhone, iPad and Android works with VoiceOver and TalkBack, from the player and mixer through exercises and singing along to chat, calendar and the Drive. You operate the web app with keyboard and screen reader. If something doesn't work somewhere, let us know so we can improve that exact spot.
In the app with VoiceOver and TalkBack
- Labelled controls: buttons, switches and sliders have names and announce their state; headings, tabs and lists announce their role. You adjust sliders with your screen reader's usual gestures, and cori announces the new value.
- Dialogs and sheets: when a dialog or a sheet from the bottom opens, focus jumps to its heading. You can close it with TalkBack's back gesture or VoiceOver's escape gesture (draw a "Z" with two fingers).
- Actions instead of swiping and holding: wherever you'd normally long-press or swipe, for example in chats, the calendar, the Drive and setlists, cori offers the action in your screen reader's actions menu.
- Notes and results you can hear: note names are spoken, "C#4" for example as "C sharp 4". In ear-training and rhythm exercises with multiple-choice answers, cori announces "Correct!" or "Not quite" and, after a mistake, tells you the right answer. Your screen reader reads out results such as "Pitch: 85 out of 100".
- Quiet while you sing: while the microphone is running, that is when singing, recording and measuring latency, cori doesn't announce anything itself. That way no speech output ends up in your recording or in the pitch detection.
- Fewer detours: your screen reader skips the bird illustrations and other decoration.
On the web with keyboard and screen reader
Icon buttons and input fields have names that your screen reader reads out, for example in the player, the mixer, the calendar and the sheet music. You reach cards, calendar days and other clickable areas with the Tab key and activate them with Enter or the space bar. You close dialogs with Esc.
| Where | Key | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Player | B | Set or remove a bookmark at the current position |
| Player | Keyboard media keys | Play, pause, next and previous song |
| Singing along | Space bar | Pause |
| Exercises in the learning path | 1 to 9 | Choose an answer |
| Exercises in the learning path | Space bar | Play the task again; in tapping exercises, tap the rhythm |
| Exercises in the learning path | Enter or Esc | Continue or leave the exercise |
On both platforms: if you've turned on reduced motion in your device's accessibility settings, cori leaves out many animations.
What doesn't work yet
No screen reader can read out the sheet music itself, that is the staves and note symbols. You turn the pages using labelled buttons. To learn your voice, the player helps: the Own Voice preset in the mixer plays only your voice, see Mixing voices.
Reporting a problem
If you find a button without a name, a spot you can't reach or a gesture without an alternative, write to us:
Please include your device and its system version, your screen reader (for example VoiceOver, TalkBack or NVDA), your cori version and the spot where things go wrong. Then we can reproduce it.
What's next?
- What's available where: What works on the web, what works in the app?
- Getting to version 9.0.0: The app isn't updating
- Get the app: Installing the cori app