[studiorecorder] Re: Access Ideas Needed
- From: "David Tanner" <David.Tanner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:51:20 -0500
You were talking about hard drive rarely being a concern, and I
chuckeled since I just checked to see how much free space I have on
the drive on this system and I only have 326 gigabyte free. I think
I might have enough for at least a couple hours of recording even if
I do it with an uncompressed wav file.
David Tanner
Rehabilitation Program Specialist 3
Assistive Technology Specialist
Assistive Technology Department
MN State Services f/t Blind
Office- 651-642-0795 Cell- 651-270-2233
Skype name: dtat100
>>> curtis@xxxxxxxxxx 6/23/2006 12:38 AM >>>
I like option 1 the pressing of a given keystroke a number of
times,
since mostly I, for example with to know my current place in the
file
in time, secondary, the total time of the file, and the time
available on disk is hardly ever a problem so that should, in most
circumstances be of tertiary concern, since bigger and bigger hard
drives are the norm these days.
You could write that dialog so we can determine which items are
relayed to speech I.E. number of marks, etc, or whatever the items
which can be called from the status bar to speak with the given
keystroke. A defalt, of course, might be nothing, just as toggles
is
off, by defalt.
Curtis Delzer
At 12:26 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
>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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