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. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
