Accessibility

Reading the chart.

Setliner™ has options that make a chart easier to read from a music stand, a tablet or across a stage. They are part of the free app.

• Chart fonts. Atkinson Hyperlegible, Lexend and OpenDyslexic are free fonts designed for readability. Choose one in Settings, Appearance; the lyrics and chords in the chart viewer and display windows use it. Exported PDFs keep their fixed-width font so chords stay over their words.
• Text size. Set a default size, and each song keeps its own size on each device. Columns show more of a song at once. On a computer, Ctrl and the mouse wheel make a whole window’s buttons and text larger.
• Light, dark and color. A dark theme for dim stages, light and dark themes to choose from, your own chord and note colors, and a color for each section type, so a chorus looks like a chorus at a glance.
• High contrast. Two themes, High contrast black and High contrast white, in Settings, Themes. Chart text and chords are held to a contrast ratio of 7:1 against the page, and buttons and outlines to 3:1. You pick one; nothing switches to it by itself.
• Chord diagrams. Fretboard or piano diagrams for the chords in a chart.
• Next line preview. The first line of the next page at the foot of each page, so a page turn does not lose your place.
• Transpose and capo. Change the key or the capo and the chords change with it, without rewriting the chart.

Playing hands-free.

• Foot pedals and keys. A Bluetooth pedal that acts as a keyboard turns pages and scrolls. On a computer every chart action has its own key, and you can change or clear any of them.
• Someone else turns the pages. If a pedal is not an option for you, Linked devices let another person lead from their own device, such as a bandmate or the sound desk, and your device follows section by section. Linked devices are an optional feature with a free 90-day trial.
• Auto-scroll by the clock. Auto-scroll moves the chart at each song’s saved speed. It does not listen to the music, so it keeps going in a loud room.

Seeing the beat.

The metronome can show the beat on screen as well as play it. Auto-scroll needs no listening at all.

Big screens.

On a computer, Popout displays put the chart on another monitor or a projector, each window with its own text size and a lyrics-only mode. Popout displays are an optional feature.

One place in Settings.

Settings, Accessibility gathers these options and opens each one where it lives. It is in the app on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, and in the iPad app when it is released.

What we check against.

We review Setliner™ against these guidelines. We treat them as rules of thumb, not hard rules: when a feature needs to cross one, we write down why and keep it on our list.

• WCAG 2.2, level AA: text and control contrast (1.4.3, 1.4.11), target size (2.5.8), consistent navigation and naming (3.2.3, 3.2.4), and labels a screen reader can read (2.5.3, 4.1.2). WCAG is written for the web; we apply it to the apps the same way.
• W3C’s Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities, our main guide for focus and attention: one clear main action in each area, controls that stay in the same place, less on screen at once, and plain labels.
• Touch targets of at least 44 points on iPhone and iPad (Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines) and 48 dp on Android (Material Design).

What is missing.

We would rather tell you than have you find out on stage.

• Setliner™ has not yet been tested with a screen reader (TalkBack, VoiceOver, NVDA or JAWS). Most buttons have spoken names, but some do not yet.
• The app does not follow your device’s light or dark mode. You choose a theme in Settings, and it stays until you change it.
• The app does not yet read your device’s reduce-motion setting.
• The full keyboard shortcut list is on computers; Android and iPad take page-turn and cue keys only.
• Popout displays are on computers only.

If something gets in your way, tell us. It helps us decide what to fix first.