Hi Dante,
Adding a “*” might sound confusing. That is, what if the suggestion is a
pointer? I see 2 ways of solving this (These are not concrete ideas yet)
1. Announce “suggested” after the suggestion.
This could be announced at a lower pitch (depending on the screen reader
capabilities you have access to).
2. Use non-speech audio (maybe a tiny beep) before speaking out the suggestions
that you populate using your machine learning algorithm.
The last alternative is to do nothing and just re-order the list.
Hope this helps.
Best regards, Venkatesh
Ph.D. Student,
Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, University of
Washington
Https://venkateshpotluri.me
On Nov 5, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First, the code completion is vastly improved over earlier versions
(especially when it comes to c++), completion used to be a very hit or
miss thing as to whether it would trigger at all.
As for your query I don't mind having the most common (or perhaps last
chosen) item becoming the default but I would very much dislike having
them out of alphabetical order. I often use completion to discover
what is visible in a given scope and having them out of order would
make that more cumbersome. I would also very much dislike any
indicator in the speech flow, even a one syllable word like "star"
On 11/5/18, Dante Gagne <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey folks,
First off, if folks think this is an inappropriate use of the list, just say
so and I'll take it offlist and apologize up front. However, I was hoping I
could ask the crowd for a few opinions now and then for functionality that
we're considering in the upcoming version(s) of Visual Studio. Essentially,
I have my guesses that this experience would work, but I'd rather YOU folks
tell me that it does.
Today when you're coding in Visual Studio, when you hit "." After a token,
the Intellisense completion list comes up with every single possible token
that could follow. So, if you type "Debug.", you'll get "Assert, AutoFlush,
Close,..." etc... (To be clear, you get a list box with each of these as an
entry in it, so you'd hit arrow key to travel through).
The new feature, uses machine learning to "guess" what is most commonly
used. For instance, for most folks, Debug.Write or Debug.WriteLine is the
most common completion. The feature will move those items to the top of the
list. However, since they're out of alphabetical order, they are annotated
to show that these are "recommended" instead of in the "everything" list.
If we did nothing, when you type Debug. You would hear "Write, Writeline,
Assert, Autoflush", etc... But in that case, you don't know which ones are
recommended, just that they're the first ones.
The question I have is this... how would you feel if the recommended
completions were preceded with the word "Star"? So, if I went this way,
you'd type "Debug" and hear "Star Write, Star Writeline, Assert,
Autoflush...". The first suggestion that was made was to say "Recommended",
but that's four syllables and I asserted that a screen reader user would go
crazy having to sit through hearing "Recommended Recommended Recommended..."
over and over. But "Star" is very quick.
We had also thought about putting it after the token so you'd here "Write
Star, Writeline Star, Assert, Autoflush" but the thought there was that
"Write Star" sounds an awful lot like the name of the method is literally
"WriteStar".
How do folks feel about this? Is "Star" short enough that saying it before
the recommended items (of which there usually aren't more than 2-3)? Some
other suggestion?
Thanks in advance, and again, I do apologize if this is out of line for the
mailing list. Just let me know.
-Dante
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