Option 3 sounds good to me. ~Merrill
Actually, Ctrl+T is used -- it is the Settings dialog. I'll put you down for option 3.
Rob Meredith
>>> David.Tanner@xxxxxxxxxxx 06/22/06 08:46PM >>> For the time items it looks like ctrl + t and ctrl + shft + t are both available so I guess I would probably go with ctrl + t for current time in file and ctrl + shft + t for total time - unless you wanted to do ctrl + t once for current time and a second tap of the t key would give you the total time.
As for free hard drive space I would probably do something like ctrl + shft + h - which appears not to be used at this time in SR.
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>>> rmeredith@xxxxxxx 6/22/2006 2:26 PM >>> We are considering adding a few more features to be spoken through JAWS or Window-eyes. Since the peak hold was a big hit, we are thinking that direct access to specific status bar items might be of use. The question is, how do we present this information?
Imagine that you want to know the following things frequently: 1. The current position in time 2. The length of the document in time 3. Free space on the hard drive
Of course you could arrange the status bar to show only these three items, and use your screen reader's command to read the status bar. We could also add a Read Status Bar command. But, what if you just wanted to hear one of the items, and quickly?
Here are three ways we have considered. Feel free to express your views, or even suggest an entirely different way:
Option 1. Use a single key for speaking preferred information. When pressed once, the most preferable information would be spoken. When pressed twice quickly, the next most preferable information would be spoken. Finally, pressing the key three times quickly would speak your number three preference. This is very JAWS-like. Problems: 1. A dialog would be needed to specify what should be spoken, and in what order. 2. Only three functions would be available, since pressing a key four times quickly would be annoying at least. Pressing a key three times is already pushing the limit.
Option 2. Use a single key followed by a letter key which specifies what is to be spoken. For example, you would press a certain key, then T for total time, C for current time, or F for free hard drive space. Problems: 1. Very non-Windows like, since program would be in a "mode."
Option 3. Just use key combinations, such as Ctrl+Shift+F1 for current time, Ctrl+Shift+F2 for total time, and so on. Problems: 1. We could run out of keys quickly, since many keys are already in use. 2. Using a lot of modifiers would annoy some people, for example, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5.
Ok, have your say!
Rob Meredith
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