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"John Travoltage" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/john-travoltage
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Voicing default details unhelpful #439

Closed KatieWoe closed 3 years ago

KatieWoe commented 3 years ago

Test device Dell Operating System Win 10 Browser Firefox Problem description For https://github.com/phetsims/qa/issues/676. When turning on voicing during our last look at this sim, object details/changes and context changes were on by default. In this rc, all seem off by default. This means that very little is read out by default, such as that the arm and leg are swinging. Nothing about the number of electrons, or discharging.

Visuals Old default:

before

New default:

now

Troubleshooting information:

!!!!! DO NOT EDIT !!!!! Name: ‪John Travoltage‬ URL: https://phet-dev.colorado.edu/html/john-travoltage/1.6.0-rc.1/phet/john-travoltage_all_phet.html Version: 1.6.0-rc.1 2021-07-22 18:05:38 UTC Features missing: touch Flags: pixelRatioScaling User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0 Language: en-US Window: 1280x675 Pixel Ratio: 1.5/1 WebGL: WebGL 1.0 GLSL: WebGL GLSL ES 1.0 Vendor: Mozilla (Mozilla) Vertex: attribs: 16 varying: 30 uniform: 4096 Texture: size: 16384 imageUnits: 16 (vertex: 16, combined: 32) Max viewport: 32767x32767 OES_texture_float: true Dependencies JSON: {}
jessegreenberg commented 3 years ago

Thanks @KatieWoe - Correct, it was decided for now that the default behavior for voicing should be more terse, so that the feature is not overwhelming to people that initially find it.

But it is useful to know this was your interpretation of the change, and would be good for @terracoda or @emily-phet to review and confirm this is OK and correct before closing.

emily-phet commented 3 years ago

@jessegreenberg Yes - this is the intended default behavior for version, none of the Voicing checkboxes checkboxes.

@KatieWoe - With Voicing enabled, but no checkboxes checked, you should still be able to hear object names as you click/tap/navigate to different objects, and you should be able to hear the reading blocks (in sims that have them, John Travoltage has no reading blocks, but GFLB does). If that's your experience, then the behavior is as expected.

terracoda commented 3 years ago

@KatieWoe, and of course you have access to the reading buttons in the toolbar as well :-)