Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

  • From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:08:26 -0500

Good afternoon Suzie and listers,

    When filling out Web Forms if something isn't filled out correctly you 
often receive error messages that say something like, "Please fill out the 
fields marked in red so the information is correct" or something like that. 
I would like to know which fields are not filled out correctly when passing 
my cursor over the form to find these fields and reenter the information 
they should contain. If I received an auditory queue when I passed the 
cursor over incorrectly filled fields they would be easier to find and edit 
so the form can be resubmitted and processed.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO" <susan.stanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:21 PM
Subject: RE: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?


Hi Listers,

When people are using Eclipse for editting Java, something on the screen 
turns "red" when they type something wrong. I would like to know that.

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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:01 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

Hi,
If I knew how to get in touch with Will Pearson, I'd ask him these 
questions. Maybe our moderator will be able to dig up his address.

From a usability viewpoint, I'd like to be able to have everything a toggle. 
The user should be able to turn every single audio aspect of the system on 
and off.

If this is only about writing Java code, I don't know how much useful 
information you can get from the rest of this message, but I'll try to give 
you some general ideas.


*         I'd want a sound that indicates which part of the system the next 
spoken message is coming from. For example, there'd be a sound that 
indicates that the next spoken message is coming from the debugger, then a 
spoken message from the debugger. There'd also be a training mode where the 
user could learn what the sounds mean. The debugger sound would play along 
with the spoken word debugger. Once the user got used to the sound that 
means debugger, the user could turn off the training mode.

*         All spoken prompts could have a short and a long version.

*         There could be the option to send messages to your screen reader, 
and another to make Netbeans speak messages with one of the voices already 
on the computer.
That's all I can think of for now.

Thanks.

Jim


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Jim Homme
Usability Services
412-544-1810
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable 
will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:37 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sodbeans
Subject: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

Hello folks,

We're getting pretty close here in our netbeans tools, possibly within the 
next few months, to adding some very nice auditory enhancements to NetBeans 
for blind users. I've got an overwhelming number of ideas about what could 
help, but I can't implement them all and would like to get some feedback 
from the community. Specifically, we're looking for some ideas in two main 
areas, code completion and auditory navigation.

1. Code completion --- Whenever I've talked to folks in the past about code 
completion with audio, people have suggested that one of the most annoying 
issues with code completion is changes in focus.

Anyone have ideas about auditory code completion? Besides managing focus 
better, anyone have any ideas on how to make it more accessible?

2. Auditory navigation --- I have a graduate student currently working on a 
blind code navigation system. Right now, the system allows you to jump 
around the source window and find variable declarations, method 
declarations, and other similar things, but we want to expand the navigation 
to make things easier.

One idea I had, for example, was to make the navigation window "debugger 
sensitive" so that if you are navigating around while your code is 
executing, there will be audio that tells you more information about what 
you've browsed to. For example, if you navigate and land on a variable, it 
might tell you its name, type, and if the debugger is running, what its 
value is, or other information, depending on how much useful audio we can 
put into a short cue.

But really, we're doing this project for this community. We genuinely want 
to make our tools as accessible as humanly possible, and we're going out of 
our way to make it so. If anyone has any ideas about what kind of tools 
would help you, go ahead and put them here, I'd love to hear about them!
Obviously, we have limited development time, so it's unlikely we'll 
implement every suggestion, but brainstorming helps.

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

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