Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome
- From: Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>
- To: Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>
- Cc: Orca screen reader developers <orca-list gnome org>, Gnome accessibility <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, glenn glennji com
- Subject: Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:14:38 -0700
Hi Thomas, Glenn,
I've cc-ed both <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org> &
<orca-list gnome org>, for the accessibility/screen reader question.
On 23 Mar 2007, at 19:26, Glenn J. Mason wrote:
And that's before even considering accessibility, etc.
I was wondering when someone would bring this up. It doesn't make much
sense to me, as you're probably going to be using a screen reader
anyway, so you don't need to learn half a dozen different sounds
because you already know the spoken word. However, I'm not experienced
in this field so it'd be interesting to hear from someone who is.
The big issue here is whether the audio subsystem can properly deal with
non-speech audio being generated at the same time as speech. Many
screen reader users like to have non-speech audio indicating when
various things are happening. Others turn it off.
Perhaps some of the blind gnome users might chime in (excuse the pun) on
this.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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