Hi Standard system sounds are good for me. For instance, the "you've entered that wrongly" or "you've pressed the wrong key" sounds
The problem with having no system sounds is that if you have an input error, like described above, you won't generally speaking get a dialogue box or such like to let you know about your mistake. And without that dialogue box, the screen reader has nothing to read. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Korn Sent: 26 March 2007 22:15 To: Thomas Wood Cc: Orca screen reader developers; Gnome accessibility; desktop-devel-list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome Hi Thomas, Glenn, I've cc-ed both <[email protected]> & <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, for the accessibility/screen reader question. > On 23 Mar 2007, at 19:26, Glenn J. Mason wrote: > > >> And that's before even considering accessibility, etc. >> > > I was wondering when someone would bring this up. It doesn't make much > sense to me, as you're probably going to be using a screen reader > anyway, so you don't need to learn half a dozen different sounds > because you already know the spoken word. However, I'm not experienced > in this field so it'd be interesting to hear from someone who is. The big issue here is whether the audio subsystem can properly deal with non-speech audio being generated at the same time as speech. Many screen reader users like to have non-speech audio indicating when various things are happening. Others turn it off. Perhaps some of the blind gnome users might chime in (excuse the pun) on this. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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
