Re: [orca-list] Changes/ finetuning for Progressbar Beeps

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey B.H.

I've been meaning to make separate interval settings. I'll do that.
--joanie

On 06/29/2016 02:18 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Unless oone is sitting right in front of a laptop or has good sound system connected to their computer they 
> won't hear movement.
> I do have a request, or maybe I am aggreeing with what is being proposed, sorry, I am unsure of what was 
> meant by shorter beeps.
> I set my spoken progress msgs to 5 seconds, but would like more frequent beeps in many cases, It could seem 
> to add a bit of overhead to the code, but maybe 
> not or maybe it would be minimal to check progress percentage every second, maybe even half second and if 
> the change from the last check is more than a 
> certain percent,  5% , maybe, then there would be a beep. 
> For slow progress a beep every 5 seconds is fine. 
> NVDA works this way I believe, i.e. sometimes beep come very quicklyl when something updates quickly, and 
> it can be much slower for something that takes a 
> long time to complete. For slower updates then default to beeping every 5 or 10 secs.
> The alternative, having separate settings for spoken, braille, and beeped progress would not be as good as 
> I don't want to hear a beep if progress has not 
> advanced much or any.
> Having braille and spoken beeps on the same timer probably makes sense. 
> I am guesssing that folks who can use both speech and braille won't use braile updates  unless they have 
> chosen to turn speech off all together for some 
> reason.
> Regards, and thanks for working on this.
>