Highlight:  Lime Lighter

Bill McCann is the founder and president of Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology, the company that has been helping blind and low vision musicians make music since 1992.  His company created the world’s first commercial Braille music translator software, GOODFEEL and has pioneered in the area of creating what he calls “accessible scores”.  Dancing Dots markets an access solution for creating professional-sounding, multi-track audio productions.  Their latest products enable low vision musicians to read and to write music in an accessible environment. 

The Lime Lighter displays printed music notation using the traditional five-line staff. You can magnify the music up to 10 times the original size and can even edit the music and print it out. But, for most people with low vision, this technology will be of interest as a way of reading music comfortably.  Use it in conjuntion with the SharpEye software, which lets you scans printed music and it will convert it to various music file formats.  To round out the experience, use Lime Aloud to create and print editions of your own musical ideas!

For more information, go to the Dancing Dots website or you can watch a video of Bill demoing the Lime Lighter at a recent conference.