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- From: "T.V Raman" <raman google com>
- To: jasonw ariel its unimelb edu au
- Cc: dev-accessibility lists mozilla org
- Subject: Re: Screen readers and chat or instant messaging
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:57:09 -0800
Here are things I've found useful with the various speech-enabled
chat apps I've built/used in the emacspeak environment:
0In general, ) You want to hear a message as it comes in irrespective of
your context,
1) You want the ability to turn the above off in the case
of excessively chatty buddies.
2) More generally, the combination of "automatically
speak messages" and "selectively turn off buddies" needs to be
customizable together; as an example, an alternative
work habit might be to turn off auto speaking of *all*
messages, and selectively turn on special buddies.
3) In all cases, you need an auditory alert as a message
comes in (separate from speaking the message).
4) You need a global kbd shortcut to jump to the last
buddy who talked to you and that you haven't responded
yet.
5) In general the above commands works off of the ring of
pending buddies, pushing the buddy you just jumped to the end of
the queue.
6) Finally, you need a means of quickly finding out all the
buddies who have messaged you while you were AFK when you
return; in Emacspeak this information is placed at the
end of the mode-line output.
So to summarize, if you treat chat like any other piece of
scrolling content, the user will be able to read the chat log --
but it wont lead to an interface that lends itself to the chatter
being very responsive or effective.
Jason White writes:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:38:41AM -0500, Aaron Leventhal wrote:
>
> > Or is it just like anything else? One reviews the chat log like it's a
> > document. That makes me wonder whether there's a quick command to navigate to
> > the end of the chat log, which is typically the most recent message.
>
> Yes, as long as that means the beginning of the most recent message, not the
> end of it. If I'm reading the chat log and start typing, does the focus switch
> to the window in which I am entering text? This would be a good default
> (assistive technologies generally allow the review position, e.g., the
> location of the braille window, to be disconnected from the system cursor if
> desired, and this can be useful at times in chat applications).
>
> Also, if a new message is appended to the chat log while I'm reading an
> earlier message, will the focus shift to the new message? My preference would
> for "no shift" in this situation, by default, but maybe some users would like
> the new message to receive focus as soon as it appears.
>
> I've used IRC and Jabber chat applications in console mode, and cursor
> movement has always presented problems, particularly with a braille display.
>
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5) In general
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