Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

  • From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:38:57 -0400

Agreed, but Visual Studio tries something like this, though not an audio 
warning. I hate it, because I am always either being focused on a list of 
suggestions or an error list, even if the error is from something wrong that I 
had not finished typing yet; had I had more time than half a second, the text 
would be correct and no error would be generated. An error tone may be good 
when, for example, you go to the next line and forget to close a set of 
parenthses; I guess it would be a "error on previous line" warning tone, and a 
keystroke would read the error the tone was alerting you to. Just my thoughts, 
and I have never used Net Beans.


Have a great day,
Alex
New email address: mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO 
  To: 'programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' 
  Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:21 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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