In JAWS I once did something called JGauge that used a similar set of about 100 wav files. Those used triangle waves I think, though I'd have to look to see if it was triangle or trapezoid. Anyway, each wav file consisted of three tones: One for the bottom edge of the range, one for the top, and one for the current position. The range was two octaves wide, which is much narrower than the range being used for the progressBar scripts in WE now. My idea was to make sure the whole range could be heard even on tiny laptop speakers, yet without piercing the ears of headphone users. The specific range was A220 through A880 if I remember correctly. A440 was, therefore, 50%. The current-position tone was at a slightly louder volume than the bottom-edge and top-edge tones, to make it stick out. The theory was that the mind would naturally figure out the approximate percentage based on the three tones. In my personal experience though, that only really worked if the tones updated often enough for the mind to notice properly the actual pitch combinations. In a very short three-tone burst, that didn't happen. The tones are simultaneous though, not rapid-fire one at a time.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 03:40:33PM -0500, J.J. Meddaugh wrote: I'm open to ideas. Agreed those aren't the greatest sounds either. Ideally there would be a tone generator function in VBScript but alas there isn't. J.J. Meddaugh - ATGuys.com A premier Licensed Code Factory and KNFB Reader distributor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <[email protected]> To: "Steve Pattison" <[email protected]>; "GW Info" <[email protected]> Cc: "the gw-micro scripting list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Feedback about the Latest Progress Indicator Script >I believe the reasons for the sounds are percentages of one. The other >sounds, the whole tone scale as it was, I think only 20 rather than 100 >sounds? Guessing but that is a default of 5 percentage. I don't like that >"raspy" sound either, which actually are square waves as opposed to sine >waves, and seems to me that they are the same as the NVDA sounds which >indicate progress bars. The problem with 100 sounds, is the range of most >speaker systems on computers, and maintaining some kind of musical context >as in the earlier sounds. I'll see if I can work out something, because it >would be fun to hear musical sounds as opposed to this rasp. :) > > >Curtis Delzer. >HS. >sounds. Problem, > >At Thursday 11/12/2009 03:40 AM, Steve Pattison wrote: >>First of all I appreciate the hard work people who write scripts do to >>provide so many useful scripts for people like me who don't have the >>slightest clue how to write scripts or any other type of program. >> >>However I am very disappointed with the new sounds in the latest version >>of the Progress Indicator script. I find the new sounds very harsh and >>bordering on being annoying. However I appreciate other people prefer >>these sounds and I understand why GW Micro feel the new sounds are >>better for people using laptops etc. >> >>I have a suggestion that could possibly please everyone. Why not create >>another script with the original sounds and call it something like >>Progress Indicator Classic or similar and make it identical to the new >>Progress Indicator script except for the sounds. Then you could include >>the edition of the script with the new sounds as the default script with >>Window-eyes and also on Script Central and as well make another edition >>of the script available on Script Central with the sounds that wer used >>previously with this script. >> >>Regards Steve >>Email: [email protected] >>MSN Messenger: [email protected] >>Skype: steve1963 >>Twitter: steve9782 >> >>If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >>sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >>your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >>your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >>All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and >>can be searched through and sorted using the search >>form at the bottom of the page. >> >>If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >>[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >>of the message. > > -- Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:[email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller
