On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:59 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 05:55 -0500, Jacob Beauregard wrote: > > > > What you fail to interpret is that a worded description is not the only > > way to identify something using audio, much in the same way we don't > > rely on text when using icons. > > I guess what you're getting at here is 'earcons': > http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/generalearcons/generalearcons1.shtml > > It would certainly be cool to see somebody doing some work on this in > the Unix/Linux desktop space, maybe you could rustle up some interest on > the accessibility mailing lists. Earcons and metawidgets... Meera Blattner was way ahead of her time: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsound/position-papers/blattner-et-al.html > Cheeri, > Calum. > -- Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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