Re: [Audacity-devel] Accessibility of label tracks

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

    | From "David Bailes" <drb...@go...> 
    | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:26:40 +0100
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Accessibility of label tracks
    | Thanks Leland for pointing out the label editor, and Gale for
    | suggesting some workarounds. But...
    | It's unusual behaviour to move through a set of items, and to be
    | automatically put in rename mode. Normally, you would have to select
    | rename from its shortcut menu. Is there a good reason for this unusual
    | behaviour?

I suspect it suits more people than it doesn't. Once you have created the label,
clicking in it or tabbing to it currently serves the dual purpose of recalling
the point or selection the label refers to, and of editing the label. There are
times I click in the label, forget I cannot just press spacebar to play and so
get annoyed when I start editing the label. But when I do want to edit the 
label I am glad not to have to do anything than click in it. I certainly would 
not as a sighted user want to be forced into Label Editor to edit an existing
label, until Label Editor has a hotkey or right-click integration, and until
invoking Label Editor with the focus in a particular label actually puts the
focus in that label in the Editor. I'm also not at all sure a separate label
properties dialogue can be justified as well as the Editor. 

Also what would happen when you create the label in the first place? I 
certainly would not personally object much if I clicked in an existing label
and to edit it I could hotkey straight to that label in the Label Editor. But 
if when I CTRL + B to create the label, that means that despite the label
having focus I still have to do something else before I can type the label,
I don't think that's an acceptable price to pay. I don't know, but I'd guess
what you see as unusual behaviour when tabbing to a label actually arises
from being able to type straight in the label when you CTRL + B. Any ideas
Leland or anyone if we can Add label at Selection, type straight in the label, 
but after that click in the label and not have it immediately editable?      


Gale 






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