[studiorecorder] Re: Access Ideas Needed
- From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:40:23 -0400
Hi,
The only way any of these custom keystrokes would mess people up is if they
use a macro/hotkey program and have those currently unassigned keys assigned
to do totally different things. E.G. on our systems here we have EZ Macros
by American Systems installed. Pretty accessible, and we've been using
Ctrl+Shift+Something key combinations since most programs don't seem to use
those. Also, it's probably pretty common to use Ctrl+Alt+Something key
combinations for Windows shortcuts on the desktop.
Jayson.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <David.Tanner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:46 PM
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: Access Ideas Needed
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> >>> 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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