Re: [orca-list] the speaking of progress bars

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:17:48AM EST, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> Progress bar announcement is one of the first things I turn on when
> setting up Orca.  It would be great to have it on by default.
> Before switching to Ubuntu, I used to use a screen reader in XP called
> NVDA.  They have a feature where progress bars were shown with rising
> beeps.

Unfortunately thiw will likely not be as easy to do in orca, due to Orca's cross-platform nature, and the 
many different audio subsystems that would have to be supported to do it, as not all speech 
synthesizers/backends support this either.

Luke
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