FW: [g-a-devel] AT-SPI, focus leaving and window IDs

[<ian pascoe bt com>]

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: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Dave
Mielke
Sent: 04 March 2005 16:33
To: Bill Haneman
Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
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.

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