Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls
Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls
- Subject: Re: Turning off Spoken Interface for certain controls
- From: David Niemeijer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:04:42 +0200
At 8:44 -0400 7/4/04, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
Can you give some examples of what types of you're thinking of?
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.
I would imagine that people with visual impairments but not fully
blind might prefer to see certain information in large print rather
then have everyone nearby hear it even though they use spoken
interface for other things.
(2) An assistive technology application may have its own kind of
spoken interface (perhaps multilingual) and it might get really
confusing for the user to hear the same text getting spoken multiple
times (and perhaps in multiple languages).
Without having tried Spoken Interface and having seen what it is like
it is of course difficult for me to assess the degree to which the
issues mentioned above are going to be a problem for dedicated
assistive technology software. I am just saying that having a
facility to turn spoken interface off just for certain user interface
elements may in some cases provide a better user experience or be the
right thing to do. I think it is safer to build in the option to
allow it to be turned off for certain user interface elements than
wait until users are experiencing problems. I just wanted to signal
potential problems and hope Apple's development team will take this
aspect along.
david.
On 4/6/04 2:36 PM, "David Niemeijer" <email@hidden> wrote:
Will there be a way for a developer to turn of the speaking of a
specific interface element, without having to turn off the
accessibility for that element as a whole. Sometimes there are
reasons why something should not be spoken.
Cheers,
> david.
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