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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Yes, and I think I made this clear in my first post. 
I lean toward using sound icons as the default, but have no strong feelings about that. The options should 
certainly be there for the verbal msg that we 
have now, the proposed sound icon, and they should be checkboxes so that one can enable one, both or none. 
Someone, maybe me, would enable both for a while until the meaning of the sound icon is well remembered, and 
then the verbal msg could be disabled. 
I and others have been supporters of having some useful sound icons in Orca, and I really do think this can 
be a valuable productivity enhancement 
for many users. There is a limit to how many events can  be practically handled this way, and of course only 
some types of information are efficiently 
communicated with sound icons to begin with.
Some day perhaps there could be a way to add custom sounds to other events and or to replace other messages, 
those that most users would probaly not 
want to use, but this would need to be tucked away in an advanced settings tab or something, or handled in 
customizations.py. This last idea would be 
pretty low priority in my opinion, but just throwing it out there for folks to think about. 
While I certaily want orca to be very flexible/configurable, I think cluttered or overly complicated 
prefferences need to be avoided. Lean, mean, and 
clean are good watch words I reckon.
Regards, 

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     B.H.
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  Christopher Chaltain wrote:
Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 09:37:46AM -0600

> 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.
> >
> >
> > Milton
> >
> >
> > 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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