Re: [orca-list] The SayAll user experience



I daily use the say all feature.
1a fits my needs. By setting the punctiation level it is usefull for me.
I like to hear if there is a hyperlink in the text.
3. when stopping the speech by pressing any key and continue with arrow keys where the speech stops.
Milton
op 12-11-13 04:19, Joanmarie Diggs schreef:
Hey guys.

I was looking at the SayAll code today. Another case where we really
need to get rid of sad hacks, clean things up, eliminate bugs, make the
user experience consistent across scripts, etc., etc. But what the
redone version shall look like depends very heavily on what the desired
user experience is, so I'd like you all to give this some serious
consideration. My initial questions are:

1. The primary purpose of SayAll is:
    A. To present the exact same thing I would hear if I were manually
       arrowing through the document. I just hate those arrow keys.
    B. To present document text and only the document text. If I wanted
       to hear context like heading levels and the number of items in a
       list, I'd arrow through the document or use structural navigation.
       Plus I really hate the pauses that result each time the voice
       changes to present all caps, links, and stuff that is not on
       screen.
    C. Other (please explain in your answer)

    How strongly do you feel about your answer to question 1?

2. The expected behavior of my braille display when using SayAll is:
    A. To keep up at all times with the speech. I can read really fast.
    B. To maintain a totally independent copy of the content being spoken
       so I can scroll through the braille and read one part of the
       document while another part is being spoken.
    C. It's SayAll; not BrailleAll. As long as you update my display
       when SayAll is interrupted or completed, I'm happy.
    D. Other (please explain in your answer)

    How strongly do you feel about your answer to question 2?

    How often do you use a refreshable braille display with Orca?

3. The thing I like most about Orca's current SayAll behavior is.
    (fill in the blank)

    How strongly do you feel about your answer to question 3?

4. The thing I like least about Orca's current SayAll behavior is.
    (fill in the blank)

    How strongly do you feel about your answer to question 4?

The last thing I'd like to ask you to keep in mind is, there's no free
lunch. I can think of use cases for all the choices above and more. But
accomplishing one might necessarily mean not being able to accomplish
another. And the goal is not to make Orca's SayAll do everything under
the sun, but do a merely-ok job of it; instead the goal is to identify
the main thing SayAll should do, and make it do a really good job at
that specific task.

Thanks in advance guys! While you ponder and discuss the above, I'll get
back to all the other refactoring and fixing I'm doing.

--joanie
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