Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

  • From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:27:52 -0500

Vladyslav,

Thanks for pointing this out. Ironically, my dissertation was done, in part,
on this very topic. We've got a whole army of techniques for handling it and
have put in several hundred hours of user testing on it.

So, yaa, in short, I couldn't agree more, virtually anything related to
scoping is a real pain in audio. In our current version of the tool, we get
pretty good results with helping folks identify things related to scope, but
I think there's some improvements that can be made to our design as well.

Anyway, good point,

Stefik

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Vladyslav Kutsenko <kutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Andreas,
>
> Andreas Stefik schrieb:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I think it is very important to get information on the context the code is
> in. So for example, it is sometimes quite time consuming to read code which
> contains  numerous into each other embedded variable scopes. In my
> experience, maintaining of such code, often results in algorithm errors. The
> information about the level of scope recursion which could also contain
> additional information about the scope properties, e.g. "if block", "for
> loop ...) would be in my opinion of huge importance.
>
>>
>>  Thank you for your work!
>
> Vladyslav
>
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