On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <pat...@pld-linux.org> wrote: > > Please remember that sounds are also a means of providing feedback to > impaired users.
I knew someone would bring this up, and I actually meant to mention it in the original mail but it was late and I was tired (etc) I actually totally disagree. Not because i dont think impaired users are not important but because they are a very special case who's needs are met by other technologies such as screen readers and screen magnifiers much better than by sound themes and 125 arbitrary sound effects. This brings up another point that I forgot. The actual difficulty of initially working out what a sound means. Because the sounds are arbitrary there is no expectation[1] on the part of the user that a certain action should create a sound Which means that whenever a user hears a sound they need to try to work out what it means. Was that swish new email or CD burning finished? The user closes the laptop lid and hears "lid-close" sound, thinks "what was that sound?" and opens the laptop to check. iain [1] This is what the positive sound concept is trying to solve _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list