Peter Korn writes: > Hi Ashu, > > Why is this announcement undesirable? Why wouldn't a blind user want to > know that a new window appeard on his/her screen?
Well, I will answer for myself. All spoken messages take up time. Because a speech interface is necessarily serial, time is the most precious commodity. So, for me, hearing the result is more important than hearing the action. I do want to hear that a Window opens, but hearing "Opening Window" seems highly redundant. An earcon would be less time consuming and would suffice, once I know what sound earcon equals "opening Window." Also, hearing [application.name]/+[some.value.field/button] would probably be more valuable and a better use of time. This data is likely the next thing that would be spoken anyway. I should think messages like "opening," "Closing," etc. are helpful when one is learning, and just get in the way once one is comfortable in an environment. > > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Sun Accessibility team > > > Ashu Sharma wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am facing a problem wherein there's an undesirable announcement by > >gnopernicus when a window is created. > > > >If a top-level window is created > >(gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)), gnopernicus announces it as > >"Create Window". Is there any way to stop gnopernicus from doing so? I > >tried setting the window's role as ATK_ROLE_UNKNOWN and > >ATK_ROLE_INVALID, but gnopernicus still announced its creation in the > >same way. > > > >Any help is appreciated. > > > >Thanks, > >Ashu > >_______________________________________________ > >Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
