On Wed, 02 Nov, 2005 at 09:25PM +1100, Jason White spake thus: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:10:29PM +0000, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I don't think it needs to be *that* difficult. At least for a basic > > editor for cutting, pasting, applying fades, etc. > I agree, but others have identified the challenging aspect - how to identify > with sufficient accuracy the point at which to apply an > insertion/deletion/block/cut/copy operation, and how to navigate through the > file with appropriate feedback. Audio feedback might be possible, but there > would have to be some provision for scaling the timing by different factors to > allow the desired moment to be pinpointed. > > > > After reading this post, I quickly posted the idea to my final year > > students as a possible honours project for them. Some haven't yet > > decided, and I thought this would be a good one. I was thinking of a > > kind of "audio shell", with python-like slicing, but with > > understanding of audio. This way, you could make the text very big > > for people with reduced sight, or pipe output to a speech engine for > > people with no sight. Or both. > The latter part is handled by projects such as Speakup, Yasr and BRLTTY which > provide, respectively, speech and braille display access at the console level. > There are also several screen magnification projects on offer, including the > Gnopernicus magnifier. Yes, this is exactly why I love unix. All we need is to get something text based and the rest is taken care of. > > > > I hope someone takes the project, because even though I don't think it > > would necessarily be the big ground-breaking interface redesign you > > thought it would require, it will give us something to work from - > > usability data, and such. > If someone does take the project I'de be interested in discussing it further > and trying out whatever is developed. No takers, I'm afraid. Maybe next year. I just don't have the time to do it myself, although I might have a little play when I can. > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
