Re: [orca-list] Use of non-speech sounds for navigation...

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Dear Sasikumar,

This sounds intresting, and as some of the other users have pointed out it 
might be useful to us in the right places.

We already have some RFE's open with this regard, if you and your team 
could help by working to close them that would be excellent.

Once we have the ability to do this with Orca, we can then explore where 
sounds might be useful and where they are less so.

These are the bugs currently open related to this topic (In no 
particular order):
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354474
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589416
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400729

Thanks for your time.

-Jon

On Fri 28/05/2010 at 20:13:29, Sasikumar (ààà/ààà) M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is based on something I read in a journal. The paper claims that using
> non-speech sounds for things like navigation makes screen readers more
> friendly for the visually impaired. I think one advantage is that these
> sounds (a screech for up arrow, a bell for the enter-key, etc) are shorter
> and easier to comprehend than the full word/phrase which will be used
> otherwise. Such sounds enable you to overlay them along with normal speech,
> without spoiling the message. Since my team at Mumbai is doing work on Orca,
> I wanted to know from you -- particularly the visually impaired on this list
> -- as to your thoughts on this idea.
>
> We can then formulate a set of proper and well coordinated sounds for 5-10
> navigational tasks, and implement them.
>
> - Sasi

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