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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

This is true, but this is why it should be configurable. I'd switch to 
sounds myself, but I'd still want others to be able to use words.

On 18/02/17 01:13, Milton wrote:
> If you've got a certain age and ran out of some memory, you'll be happy
> to hear the words spoken.
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> Milton
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> Op 18-02-17 om 04:05 schreef B. Henry:
> > 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.
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