Re: [orca-list] suggestion: add sounds for entering/exiting browse and focus modes, turning on and off orca

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Well, sounds are words, to, and in this case pretty short ones whose 
meanings are known at least to the folks who know the language they're 
in.  Mind, I wouldn't object to their being available as an option, but 
the benefit seems small.  (And as one of those dudes with some hearing 
loss, I need some better speech, anyway.)

Best!

Al

On 2/17/2017 10:05 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> We are talking about a sound, not words.
> Sounds can play in as little as a tenth of a second and be understood by many, certainly a half second sound 
> can be distinguished by just about everyone
> with fair or better hearing. Speech takes longer, e.g. even at very fast word per minute counts it takes 
> longer to hear two words than to hear  a sound
> icon. For those who listen to their screenreaders at more typical rates the difference is greater, and for 
> some words are more distracting than a
> non-verbal sound for communicating relatively sinmple information.