More sound events and themes

[devinprater]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Outspoken NVDA addon deprecated

Describe the solution you'd like

Control types should be able to have sounds assigned to them, so that if a user moves focus to a button or edit control, NVDA simply replaces the spoken description of the control with the designated sound. Another option would be to get the coords of the control, and optionally use Windows Sonic for Headphones to show where the control is onscreen, allowing the user to form spacial awareness of the applications they use.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The only real alternative is the Unspoken NVDA addon, which is no longer maintained.

Additional context

Perhaps this could start as part of the Windows 10 Essentials addon, since Windows Sonic for Headphones is only available on Windows 10, but I'd definitely urge that this be in source, with the Spacial Sound settings hidden for non-Windows-10 users

Also, I'd recommend that a sound themes manager be implemented as well, to further allow the community to customize the sounds. Perhaps, even, the Themes could be NVDA addons themselves, drawing more attention to the NVDA community addons page.

[josephsl]

Hi, location awareness work is #2559 and I have worked on it. The other ones are part of Audio Themes which is incompatible although someone is trying to make it work in more recent NVDA releases. Thanks.

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Outspoken NVDA addon deprecated

Describe the solution you'd like

Control types should be able to have sounds assigned to them, so that if a user moves focus to a button or edit control, NVDA simply replaces the spoken description of the control with the designated sound. Another option would be to get the coords of the control, and optionally use Windows Sonic for Headphones https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/coreaudio/spatial-sound to show where the control is onscreen, allowing the user to form spacial awareness of the applications they use.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The only real alternative is the Unspoken NVDA addon, which is no longer maintained.

Additional context

Perhaps this could start as part of the Windows 10 Essentials addon, since Windows Sonic for Headphones is only available on Windows 10, but I'd definitely urge that this be in source, with the Spacial Sound settings hidden for non-Windows-10 users

Also, I'd recommend that a sound themes manager be implemented as well, to further allow the community to customize the sounds. Perhaps, even, the Themes could be NVDA addons themselves, drawing more attention to the NVDA community addons page.

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[Qchristensen]

Re the last suggestion in the original comment about a sound themes interface. I have created a separate issue for that - #16695 - and as Joseph noted, #2559 covers audio coordinates for object navigation. Let's then use this issue to explore earcons for control types.

In NVDA's document formatting settings, near the bottom under "Elements" there is a list of options which can be toggled as to whether they are identified by speech currently: Headings Links Graphics Lists Blockquotes Groupings Landmarks and regions Articles Frames Figures and Captions Clickable

Would that be a good list to work on for this feature? Or would it be worth starting with a different list of elements (eg edit boxes aren't in this list)

[cary-rowen]

Hi @seanbudd

Do you recommend implementing this Feature request step by step? For example, first implement the use of sound replace link role.

[seanbudd]

@cary-rowen probably not, no. It would be important to have a general multipurpose design from the start