Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

Orca attempts to address this problem by using a different
"voice" when speaking uppercase characters/words.  The
default is to merely raise the pitch of the normal voice,
but it is configurable to be any voice from any synthesizer
one might want to use.

Will

Bill Haneman wrote On 09/30/05 10:54,:
> Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave:
> 
> You are absolutely right about the case-inversion problem.  Perhaps I 
> would have noticed if I were using braille, but it's a problem that 
> bites many users.  Peter and I have mentioned this to the gnopernicus 
> team before.
> 
> It's not totally clear what the best solution is.  If, for instance, we 
> announced when the CapsLock key changed state, I might not hear the 
> message or it might have gotten interrupted by some other message.  If 
> gnopernicus announced each shift state change, would that be too 
> annoying?  At least I might notice that pressing "shift" was causing 
> gnopernicus to say "lower case" (for instance) instead of "upper case".
> 
> Who would like to file the bug?  I am guessing this is a gnopernicus RFE.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>>[quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2005/09/30 at 09:12 +0100]
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>>mY TOUCH TYPING IS A LITTLE
>>>ROUGH TOO.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Please note that one of the problems you encountered, which would indeed make
>>an employee of a company look stupid, is that you had the case inverted, i.e. 
>>that which should've been lowercase was in uppercase and vice versa. This is
>>such a simple thing, yet it'd make such a bad (and wrong) impression. It's
>>little things like this which users would notice because it'd make others
>>notice them and incorrectly perceive incompetence.
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> 
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