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

[Zahari Yurukov <zahari yurukov gmail com>]

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Hi,
I think it's better if not reducing volume as pitch increases - it
becomes too quiet. Is there a particular reason for that? It sounds
good to me without it.
Also, I think the frequency of announcing updates in Orca settings is
better to be 0 for beeps, i.e. no delay between announcements.
I find a duration of 0.075 seconds and one second for beeps a little
bit high. Just tried 0.05 and 0.5 and it looks good to me.
Is there some way to make sure the final beep is not skipped? Cause
now it could happen - if the progress is too fast.

BTW, what about the Sound Icons? I hope their not forgotten.

Best wishes,
Zahari

On 02/17/2016 10:03 PM, chrys87 wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> here you can generate a progressbar.
>
> Am 17.02.2016 um 20:41 schrieb José Vilmar Estácio de Souza:
> > 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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