[nvda-addons] Re: Experimental addon called indentone.

  • From: derek riemer <driemer.riemer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 16:18:43 -0600

Hi,
Now that bug is smashed and smashed for good!
I have released a new version of indentone. It now has the ability to also play the indent level as a musical note that correlates to the indent level. Blog about it here. Hopefully I have killed most of the pesky bugs that this addon created (with a complete redesign).
https://derekriemer.com/node/41

On 4/9/2016 8:34 AM, Jim Homme wrote:


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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Jim Homme,

Accessibility Consultant,

Bender HighTest Accessibility Team

Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,

412-787-8567,

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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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    Derek Riemer

·Department of computer science, third year undergraduate student.

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   Derek Riemer

 * Department of computer science, third year undergraduate student.
 * Proud user of the NVDA screen reader.
 * Open source enthusiast.
 * Member of Bridge Cu
 * Avid skiier.

Websites:
Honors portfolio <http://derekriemer.com>
Awesome little hand built weather app! <http://django.derekriemer.com/weather/>

email me at derek.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:derek.riemer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Phone: (303) 906-2194

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