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# uTheory Accessibility Information
- URL: https://ghost-new.utheory.com/accessibility-roadmap-b5e1926d7e3a/
- Published: 2018-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-15T18:10:55.000Z
- Description: TL;DR: We’re working hard to make uTheory accessible to everyone. Here’s some of what we’re up to. Or, checkout our Accessibility Roadmap…
- Author: Gregory Ristow
- Tags: News, a11y, Updates, #Import 2026-10-25 20:37

TL;DR: We’re working hard to make uTheory accessible to everyone. Here’s some of what we’re up to. 

Checkout our [Accessibility Roadmap](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H0nHgBJyQM8tAvbazzBU2Tz-pPPDfMLZdnjrUyvqT6g?ref=ghost-new.utheory.com) to track specific issues and features.

If you are considering purchasing uTheory for an institution that requires a VPAT, here is uTheory's [VPAT/WCAG Accessibility Report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YyZbsU%5Fqe-REngKO7QUgnf4jNX%5FrNjPPiIzWxzIlSzU/edit?usp=sharing&ref=ghost-new.utheory.com).

Music notation software is notoriously unfriendly when it comes to accessibility issues. Finale, Sibelius and Dorico have all struggled with this.

At uTheory we’ve set a goal of making every element of the site accessible to all users, and we’ve got a good start of it. uTheory is highly interactive, and includes hundreds of custom-designed interfaces for writing, reading, playing and listening to music. We have best-in-class accessibility for these, including:

- All music notation elements automatically describe themselves in a way that screen-readers can pronounce.
- All editable music notation can be controlled by a keyboard (in addition to using a mouse or touch-screen device)
- All piano inputs and images can be controlled by keyboard input, and describe themselves in alt text for screen readers.

Here's what we've been up to more recently.

**December 2020 Update (launching 12/7/20):**

- uTheory now has a high-contrast color theme available. From the dashboard, click on "Switch to high-contrast theme" to enable it. (On the landing page, you can click on "Use/disable high-contrast theme" in the footer.)
- Improved styling of keyboard-focusable elements in both the landing page and within uTheory. It should now be possible for students to accomplish all navigation, registration, etc... without the use of a mouse/pointing device.

**July 2020 Update:**

- Teachers can now configure both time and accuracy accommodations for individual students by clicking on a student name in their uTheory course roster, and choosing "Accommodations"

**May 2020 Update:**

- [All videos are close captioned](https://ghost-new.utheory.com/utheory-is-closed-captioned-178038807c03/)
- Flats and Sharps will sound on screen-readers as “flat” and “sharp” instead of “bee” and “pound.”
- Alt texts for pianos and notation elements have been improved with screen-reader accessibility in mind.

[Here’s our roadmap](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H0nHgBJyQM8tAvbazzBU2Tz-pPPDfMLZdnjrUyvqT6g/edit?usp=sharing&ref=ghost-new.utheory.com) for improving uTheory’s accessibility, and if you come across an element of the site that’s not accessible, please write us at [accessibility@utheory.com](mailto:accessibility@utheory.com) to let us know!