Project :: Accessible Peak Meter

Accessible Peak Meter

Peak level meters, along with other components which rely on the sense of sight for their use, are inherently inaccessible to people living visual impairments. AccessiblePeakMeter is the first plug-in which makes these previously inaccessible meters completely accessible. It uses real-time sonification to deliver information to the user about audio levels and peaks in audio signals, and so supports core activities in audio production.

The AccessiblePeakMeter comes as a VST or AU plug-in, two of the main industry standards for the deployment of digital audio effects into professional DAWs (e.g. Cakewalk Sonar, Cockos Reaper, Ableton Live). The plug-in can be run on both Windows (32/64) and Mac platforms and it is free for download and completely open source!

On July 2015 AccessiblePeakMeter received the Large Organization Recognition Award in the AT&T NYU ConnectAbility Challenge, a global software development competition on new software technologies aimed at improving the lives of people living with disabilities!

People

Nick Bryan-Kinns
Tony Stockman
Oussama Metatla
Fiore Martin

Research Areas

DAW Accessibility
Sonification

Links

Accessible Peak Meter Video

Accessible Peak Meter monitoring to a track in a DAW