Re: [orca-list] The SayAll user experience

[Milton <milton tomaatnet nl>]

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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