Re: [orca-list] Initial sound icons implemented into orca, testers and feedback wanted

[Zahari Yurukov <zahari yurukov gmail com>]

Hi,
Very nice! And why not a separate tab in the Orca Preferences, called
sounds? It could incorporate all sounds of Orca and a way of
playing/changing them.
You've missed some controls, like page tab, editable, check menu item
and radio menu item, may be also some other more rare controls, also
some states, like expanded/collapsed. There also could be a sound for
menu/submenu.
I don't know why, but when I go to facebook.com and move through
headings of level 5, they're silenced. This doesn't happen with Orca
master. There is also problem when navigating by headings on
startpage.com (I was just going to search for free sounds).

I'll continue testing and reporting my additional findings.

Best wishes,
Zahari

On 12/13/2015 10:19 PM, chrys87 wrote:
> Howdy List, Hi Joanie
>
> caused by I could not sleep last night I did some programming work for
> fun. so i decided to implement basic sound icons into orca (based on my
> not mainlined sound generator for the beeping progress bars). I
> recognize that many people whats that feature. Its not in a final state
> (but a good one), nor I have the allowance by Joanie to implement this
> (Joanie what did you think about?). I did it _just_for_fun_!
> A biiiig thanks to storm_dragon, he designed some  sound icon beep
> sequences for me.
> Because it seems to work very well to storm_dragon and me, we decide to
> make this public for testing, feedback and discussion.
> !I recommend this only for more technical users. Because it can break
> your screen reader setup!!
> where do i get it?
> Its currently on my git.
> git clone git github com:chrys87/orca-beep.git
> (change in the dir)
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> make
> make install
> move your old orca settings away
> start orca ( the sound icons here activated by default)
>
> what do i get?
> Its based on the most current orca master and contains the beeping
> progress bars and the sound icons.
> the sound icons are activated by default (for more easy testing). It can
> activate/ deactivate via the orca settings (enable sound icons on the
> main tab)
>
> what does it?
> 1. some (more common) widget like (check box, combo box, button, link,
> combo box, radio button) have an sound icon. there is no announcement of
> the widget "type" anymore but an different kind of sound is played on
> focus.
> 2. check box and radio button has different sound icons if there
> checked/selected or unchecked/unselected. here is no announcement of the
> value but a different kind of "beep" per value.
> 3. Browse/Focus mode announcement is also notified (by a non finished,
> ugly long sound (for know, i will change that as soon as storm_dragon
> has a cool sound icon for me)
> 4. all announcements are replaced by the sound icons. that means if a
> sound icon exists the type or state will not announced via speech.
> 5. sound icons could be turned on/ off in the settings
> 6. its done in a configurable way... so the sound icons cold overwritten
> in theories in orca-customisazion.py
> what does you guys think? bugs? ideas?
>
> cheers chrys
>
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