Dave I have been a silent member of this list for a short while, but already use a Microsoft based application.
In my experience for a visually impaired person, which I am, working in a noisy office environment answering client calls the ability of the sound card / external synth to produce a trackable voice trail of what is going on is more important from the employers viewpoint as it enables that person to remain a fully functional member of the team. I am not too technically minded but I presume that most sound cards are multi-channel so that it would be possible to have an option that whilst speech is being produced the other channels are either muted or have their sound reduced and then restored. I use this combined screen reader / screen magnification / colour inversion software at home too and in this scenario it is just as easy to temporarily disable it whilst listening specifically to music or watching video and then re-enabling afterwards. In cases where the software has to remain enabled and working whilst listening to music for example, you find it very easy to "tune in and out" of the speech. I admit that this is only one area of accessability but speech enablement should be available at all times but not nec necessarily functioning. Ian Pascoe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke Sent: 04 March 2005 16:33 To: Bill Haneman Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [g-a-devel] AT-SPI, focus leaving and window IDs [quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2005/03/04 at 13:45 +0000] >gnopernicus already speaks the name of the 'inaccessible' application >as you cycle through toplevel windows with "Alt-TAB". This, for many, isn't a solution. A deaf person, for example, needs to know this information as well. In addition, there are many for whom using speech concurrent with braille just isn't an option. Some people don't have eitehr a sound card or an external synthesizer. Others do have a sound card, but it's already being used for something else (like listening to music). Others have a sound card which could be used, but who still must maintain a silent environment because it's night time, because it'd bother their colleagues and/or customers, etc. Others work within noisy environments and couldn't possibly adequately hear speech output. Others may become needlessly confused when having to process more than one audio source at the same time, i.e. window navigation data from the computer and a customer's questions on the phone. To summarize: I think it's a mistake to design Gnopernicus such that speech output is a necessity. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
