Locktones [was Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Dave:

Locktones sounds like a good idea.  Perhaps it could be implemented in 
gnopernicus as what Janina sometimes calls "earcons".  There's no reason 
why screenreader audio needs to be speech-only.  Of course on systems 
without multiplexing audio there may be some technical issues, but I 
hope such systems are mostly behind us rather than part of our future.

Bill

Dave Mielke wrote:

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> That's why (see earlier
> post) I wrote locktones. It really does solve the problem.
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> I think that announcing state changes like that would get annoying.