This reminds me of an old feature on the Thunder screenreader where the
pitch of a ping noise was a good indications of where you were down a file
in word.
The indentation on things like visual basic and Python is important, and so
I'm not sure if the stereo idea works unless you have good ears and use
headphones.
The pitch might be a better bet, even if you don't have perfect pitch, as
you would no doubt soon get used to the tone you need in a given
circumstance.
Brian
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From: "Jim Homme" <jhomme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 3:34 PM
Subject: [nvda-addons] Re: Experimental addon called indention.
Hi Derek,
I like this idea very much, since I’m a musician, I have the following thoughts about how it might work. But let me say that I am definitely interested in having it on the usual site, so it can be used by all. I think something like this is valuable. Here are my thoughts in no particular order, for what they are worth.
I think it might be hard to judge exactly how far to the right the sound is playing, so I think I like the idea for extra sensory help, but I also like the idea of ascending tones, because I have perfect pitch, I can tell exactly the level of indentation by the musical note played.
I would like the indentation sound or tone to play along with NVDA speaking the number of indentation units, so that I can learn to associate the sounds with their meanings.
I would like the ability to turn speaking of indentation on and off.
I want to also be able to turn sounds for indentation on and off.
I would like to control the turning on and off of indentation speaking and indentation sound playing independently.
I would like to choose my own sounds.
I would like to choose the indentation unit.
Thanks for considering all of this.
Jim
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From: nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nvda-addons-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of derek riemer
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 5:20 AM
To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nvda-addons] Experimental addon called indentone.
Hi guys,
if you code, you might like this addon. It is experimental and may still have weird bugs. (When writing it, I accidentally created a browse mode that only worked with up and down arrow and page keys).
Disclaimer aside, here is what this addon does. When navigating text, if there is a tab, or four spaces (could make that configurable in future), a short tone is played in the stereo field at a position denoting how many tabs exist. For example, if editing code, when moving into an if statement, the tone you hear will seem to exist slightly farther right of where it was when you were on the line that had the if statement. When you leave the if statement, the tone will move back to the left. I will create a repo if enough people think it would be useful to add, otherwise, I will just host it. Also, I am tempted to use a more advanced audio library than nvwave, because it might be fun to make the tone travel rather than just exist. For example, the down arrow into the body of an if statement would cause the tone to start out to your left, and move in more towards the center.
https://files.derekriemer.com/Indentone-0.1.nvda-addon
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