Re: [Audacity-devel] playback slider increments

[David B. <drb...@go...>]

Hi Gale,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Gale (Audacity
Team)<ga...@au...> wrote:
>
> On June 11th David Bailes wrote:
>> Alas, some confusion over the size of the increments, they're now a bit
>> small!
>> The speed has the range 0-3 ( 0 - 300%). My suggestion was for the for
>> the arrow keys to have increments of .1 (10%), so min-max in 30 steps,
>> and the page up/down keys to have increments of .5 (50%), so min-max in
>> six
>> steps. Also the commands to increments of .1 (10%) ).
>> could you make them bigger?
>
> If I can make a dissenting noise, I think 0.03 increments are quite useful
> for sighted users who don't like trying to make fine adjustments with the
> mouse (shaky hands etc.). This means about 4 seconds slider travel if you
> hold down left/right arrow and go from one end of the slider to the other;
> just release and do individual presses when you get close to the point you
> want. I don't mind coarser increments, but can we keep them for up/down?

How about 0.05 increments for the arrow keys, and 0.5 for the page
up/down? This makes the numbers read out by the screen reader follow a
simpler sequence, eg 100%, 105%, 110%, 115% etc.

> David, when you are arrowing, does the screen reader tell you the slider
> position after each press?

Yes.

David.