Re: [g-a-devel] Stopping gnopernicus from announcing ...

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Peter Korn writes:
> Hi Ashu,
> 
> Why is this announcement undesirable?  Why wouldn't a blind user want to 
> know that a new window appeard on his/her screen?

Well, I will answer for myself.

All spoken messages take up time. Because a speech interface is
necessarily serial, time is the most precious commodity. So, for me,
hearing the result is more important than hearing the action.

I do want to hear that a Window opens, but hearing "Opening Window"
seems highly redundant. An earcon would be less time consuming and would
suffice, once I know what sound earcon equals "opening Window." Also,
hearing [application.name]/+[some.value.field/button] would probably be
more valuable and a better use of time. This data is likely the next
thing that would be spoken anyway.

I should think messages like "opening," "Closing," etc. are helpful when
one is learning, and just get in the way once one is comfortable in an
environment.

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
> 
> 
> Ashu Sharma wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am facing a problem wherein there's an undesirable announcement by
> >gnopernicus when a window is created.
> >
> >If a top-level window is created
> >(gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)), gnopernicus announces it as
> >"Create Window". Is there any way to stop gnopernicus from doing so? I
> >tried setting the window's role as ATK_ROLE_UNKNOWN and
> >ATK_ROLE_INVALID, but gnopernicus still announced its creation in the
> >same way.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ashu
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