Re: [orca-list] Proposed patch for progress beeps

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi all,, a dumb question:
Which programs can I use to test the progress bar?
Thanks and sorry for the dumb question!

On 02/17/2016 05:20 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Nolan, all.
>
> Could you please attach the patch to
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758328? Ditto for anyone else
> interested in tweaking the progress bar beeps. If you all can reach
> consensus, I'm happy to commit the agreed-upon experience.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On 02/17/2016 01:20 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > So I had some of the same issues with progress bar beeps that I did with
> > NVDA. As an experiment, I whipped up this patch.
> >
> > Basically, according to my non-coffee-fueled back-of-napkin
> > calculations, the current implementation starts progress bar beeps at a
> > few hundred Hz and scales them up to something like 2100. I don't
> > objectively know what 2.1 KHz sounds like, but I do have some objective
> > notion of what an octave sounds like, and just as a sighted person
> > doesn't have to think about how far along a progress bar is, I think we
> > should have the same convenience.
> >
> > This patch starts progress bar beeps at middle C and ramps the
> > progression up an octave linearly. I initially had a logarithmic
> > implementation but found it more confusing than I thought. Perceptually
> > the progress bar appeared to move quickly then slow down, which is
> > consistent with the numbers. I haven't tested this out with faster
> > progress bars yet so there may be some benefit to logarithmic, but one
> > thing at a time.
> >
> > We may also be able to drop the volume-scaling code if we're not ramping
> > the frequencies up above 1 KHz, but I haven't tested that yet.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
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José Vilmar Estácio de Souza