Every #blind #radio host I know prefers an analog mixer. You can feel where every button and fader is. But analog gear wears out faster and has its limits. Digital radio mixers are either not accessible, or expensive, or both.
So I built a bridge: a Midas MR18 and a Behringer X-TOUCH, with NVDA or short sounds telling you what the desk just did. Mic fader start, callers on CUE, cough button, talkback, ducking, silence alarm.
Free, open source, Polish UI for now.
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/mostek-mr18/

After BookAmp comes BookBar — the same features, this time for foobar2000: tempo adjustment, pitch adjustment, both at once, a limiter, and audio smoothing with filters.
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar/releases/latest

For everyone who enjoys discovering new music, I have a set of tools that can help. Shaq-GUI consists of three applications, each serving a different purpose:
1.
shaqgui.exe – a simple application that listens to a selected input or output of your computer and saves whatever it recognizes to a file.
2.
shaqfilegui.exe – do you have old radio shows archived somewhere and want to know which songs were played in them? This app will definitely help.
3.
shaqcast.exe – something for radio broadcasters who play music from CDs, vinyl, etc., and want to send the titles of the tracks they’re playing to a server. For now it supports Shoutcast; if needed, I can add support for Icecast as well.
Everything is accessible with screen readers:
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/shaq-gui-tools
You can download the programs here:
https://gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/shaq-gui-tools/
Feel like you could add something, improve it, or help with development? I’m open to pull requests.

After a few intense days with GPT Codex, it’s finally time to officially introduce Sara. #SARA or Simple Accessible Radio Automation, is a program primarily designed for radio presenters who host live shows.

Some notable features that are currently missing from other broadcast solutions accessible to blind users include:

a loop function – especially useful for intros,
a flexible number of playlists and players,
and a news editor module with the ability to embed audio clips that can be played while reading the news.

The application is 100% vibe-coded, and it’s definitely not recommended to test it during a live broadcast. It requires several sound cards to operate, and for now, I’m not planning to add any virtual audio routing like the one found in Radioboss or SPL. The program is and will remain open source, and perhaps someone interested in contributing will join the project.

In terms of screen reader compatibility, the main focus is on NVDA.

Happy testing: https://gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/