[nvda] Re: Some random thoughts

Gene Asner wrote:

Again, this is ideology over reason.  there is no point in providing
meaningless information.  Following this logic, you might as well have MDI
window announced since, as I understand it, that's what many of these
windows are technically.  Pane is either an entire window or part of a
window.
Unfortunately, there are cases where announcement of "pane" does indicate that one is entering a new parent window, which often indicates a different logical grouping of controls. If the window name is empty, not hearing "pane" in these cases could be problematic. Maybe we could make an exception for these. 


On another matter of unnecessary information, when alt tabbing, there is no
reason to have icons numbered and announced.
I disagree. I don't personally use this, but it gives one some indication of how many windows one has open and how many times one is likely to press alt+tab before ending up back at the start. I often have a lot of windows open and if some of them ahve the same names, it can be difficult to tell when one is beginning the cycle and when one is ending it. Also, this information is towards the end of the utterance, and given that one often repetitively presses alt+tab and the previous utterance is silenced before the next, this is not really problematic.
I am the first to agree that excessive verbosity is annoying, but I'm also reluctant to remove potentially useful information. 

Jamie

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