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Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls
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Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls


  • Subject: Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls
  • From: Peter Korn <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:49:03 -0700

David Niemeijer <email@hidden> observed:

I cannot go into details on this public list, but there may be situations where:

(1) It would not be a good idea if certain sensitive information contained in the name or contents of a control gets spoken out loud.
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I remember an outSPOKEN Macintosh user who used the pronounciation dictionary feature to competely mispronounce his password. Whenever he entered his password into his e-mail password dialog, a completely different word was spoken by outSPOKEN! Not the ideal way to address this issue, but a creative one!


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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