Hello All: Like many of you I spend a lot of time each week in Zoom meetings.
I find there are many ways by which Zoom notifications read aloud by Voice Over enhance the experience. I very much appreciate knowing who just entered the meeting, and who just left. This is only one example. But there's clearly also the problem of Voice Over obscuring what is being said in the teleconference itself. Unfortunately, both speack at exactly the same locus of a stereo field, because there's no facility to pan these sound emmiters to different locations even though most of us are likely stereo capable in our hardware. I believe the situation could be enhanced greatly if we had the ability to adjust the pan position of Voice Over speech. If the sound coming from the meeting were in one location in the stereo field, while Voice Over speech were in a different pan location; we would have a greater possibility to pay attention to the one and ignore the other. Some of us would likely even learn to comprehend both just as sighted people often comprehend unrelated simoultaneous events in their visual field. What do you think? Is this something we should request of Apple? I suspect it would be relatively easy to implement. Best, Janina -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20200709193543.GE2033%40rednote.net.
