Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

  • From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:37 -0500

snickers *smile* -- hear attachment
But seriously, why not have the voice say error or warning or whatever at the 
beginning of the line? or play a short but recognizable sound (actually the 
boing sound is a bit long).
I am not familiar with the various formats of error messages for the various 
IDE's.  I like the idea of lowering the pitch as that is also an attention 
grabber.
--le



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andreas Stefik 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:40 PM
  Subject: Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?


  Alex,

  we were considering changing the prosody (voice inflection), when you browse 
to a line that has an error. For example, the voice might get "deeper" when you 
are on a line with an error, then at the end of the sound might say, "Error: " 
then give you the name of the error. What do you think about that kind of clue?

  This wouldn't give you details on an error that's not on the same line 
though. I was thinking that trying to represent that might get overwhelming. 
What do you think? Any ideas for how you could represent that without 
overwhelming the person with info (e.g., multiple errors on multiple lines)?

  -- 
  Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
  Department of Computer Science
  Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. programmingblind
  3. Archive
  4. 08-2009