Doug,
Hopefully a long weekend has made your head stop spinning upon the idea
of a user-controlled order of the informations given. Smile.
At least, I do see two ways of handling this matter, and the user
interface is not all that complicated. After all, don't your tech
department already maintain the VoiceRotor app? Why do I bring it in
here? Because it totally demonstrates my first suggested approach.
In the VoiceRotor Options screen, you can scroll down a list of all
available voices. Finding one you want to add, you press the Add button.
It then is added into a list of selected voices. Near the bottom of the
screen, you are offered two buttons. The "move up", and "move down"
buttons. Using these, I can determine what order the voices should
appear in my rotor.
Now back to topic; and I guess you have already got my clue. Make a long
list of the infos the user can choose from, and let him ad and remove to
his heart's desire. Near the bottom of the screen, let her decide if she
wants to move the one piece of info prior or behind the other. Really,
if the VoiceRotor made your head spin, I don't get it. Can it be done
that smoothly in the Voice Rotor app, why not in the WE Control Panel
for the Site summary? I do have a ton of cases, where this would be
useful, and I will deal with a couple of examples below.
The other workaround that I see to the whole business, is slightly a mix
of what we already have, and the above mentioned method. Change all the
checkboxes currently in the interface, and replace them with comboboxes.
I tab to the combobox for "numbers of Headers", and can choose a number
between 1 and 9. I set it to 3. Tabbing again, and I am at the combobox
for "numbers of Tables", again offered to choose between 1 and 9. This
time I choose 1. And so forth. Finally save it, and from now on, the
Tables will be spoken prior to the Headers number, since I had chosen 1
for Table and 3 for Headers. Hope it all made sense, but still your head
likely is going to spin again - because this approach really would mean
a good chunk of coding and error checking. That is why, I gave the other
suggestion first. Smiles.
Now, why are we even asking all of this? Does it really matter what
order we get the info? Oh, Yes ladies and gentlemen. It could speed up
productivity quite in certain environments.
Doing a search on Google or Yahoo, the list of hits for my search, will
be marked out with headings. If that is what I mainly use my browser
for, I would much prefer to have the number of headers spoken out to me
first thing, and maybe the nmumber of landmarks or links next. I then
IMMEDIATELY would know if my search had any hits.
If I, on the other hand, mainly is browsing my grocery store, and they
have each item in its own table, I mainly am interested in the number of
Tables. I still may want to know the number of links on each site, but
that would be of second most priority. Hence, I would set the Tables
number to be spoken first, with the Links number next-coming.
Well, you may certainly ask, if this is any trouble. Already I can set
Tables, Links and Headers - and have them all spoken. But say you just
about always want the Headers info, since this is what will determine if
you landed on the right site, or if there is any need for you to read
the site that came up. If you in this case, with today's way of doing
things, always have to listen to the number of Links and Tables, PRIOR
to the info you really are mainly interested in, this can produce quite
an amount of useless chatter throughout the day. Did I have a chance to
decide which info to be given first, I could let it speak that info, and
once I knew it was what I expected, I could press my first navigational
key, and get started with my site operation. Now, I am forced to sit and
hear a ton of babble, before I get to the piece of info I am looking for.
OK, so why don't I just turn off Links and Headers, if I am mainly
interested in Tables? Because there may be cases where you would need
both. I go to my grocery store, with its items nicely lined up in
separate tables. I do a search for milk, and get 11 tables (funny how
many versions of milk is on the market now aday, smile). Once I hear "11
Tables", I can start to navigate. No need to hear all the rest of the
page summary. But when I do a search for "Bread", the page summary says
"1 table", and I know this cannot be true. There really exists 27
different kinds of bread. So I let the page summary continue, and now
hear "5 Headers". OOPS, this is strange, there only use to be two - one
for the shopping section, and one for the contact info section of the
page. Likely the increased number of headers, indicate that there is
some info as to why I only got one table.
OK, all of this, simply to try to illustrate the need for a user-defined
order of the infos given. If you don't want to invent the wheel, and
provide the user interface, could you at least ask the tech department
to make it possible to only derive one and one of the infos via an app.
If that would be possible, every app developer that happens to read
this, and who has a bit of experience with interfacing their apps, would
have the whole recipe described in the first few paragraphs of this message.
Doug, I hope I helped your head stop spinning over the user-interface
for this whole matter.Smiles. It may sound complicated first thing, but
as shown in the introductory, it need not be. And if you thereby would
provide your users the higher amount of customization?
David
On 11/25/2014 4:18 PM, Doug Geoffray wrote:
> Dave,
>
> No, you can control what you hear but not the order...the user
interface for such a thing makes my head explode (smile).
>
> Doug
>
> On 11/25/2014 9:38 AM, Dave Bahr wrote:
>> Hi, this is a minor question, but can I change the order of the
number of fields spoken in firefox when a page loads using the new beta?
I'd like to have the link count spoken before the heading count. Not
that it matters too much, just my neuroses kicking in I suppose.
>> Thanks, Dave
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