[Rwp] OSARA keymap

[James Teh]

On 24/02/2015 3:58 AM, Derek Lane via RWP wrote:
> As far as the tab and shift+tab transient navigation goes, playback 
> doesn't follow the cursor, but the actions we chained together makes 
> this the case.
> The automatic playback of items is another excellent means of seeking 
> through a large project.
I agree this probably makes sense while playing. So, ideally, you want 
it to move the edit cursor like it does now, but also move the play 
cursor while playing? And you want this for both transients and items? 
The question is whether I should add a "Move play cursor to edit cursor" 
action which you can chain or just tweak the in-built actions. Normally, 
I'm not a fan of tweaking in-built actions, but I make an exception for 
cases like this where the behaviour is more intuitive anyway. Thoughts?

> It would be nice to have an action which would echo the previous action.
> For example, reaaccess speaks when you do things like stretch and fit 
> items to time selection, add tempo changes, etc.  Rathe than attempt 
> to make everything speek, adding an "echo last action" function would 
> give keymap designers the ability to speek or not speek sertain actions.
I have two main problems with this:
1. I don't think it makes sense to report actions that aren't obvious to 
sighted users either. That is, it makes sense for a screen reader user 
to have the same experience.
2. Where actions *are* obvious to sighted users (which I'll grant is 
most of them), just echoing the action is flawed because you don't know 
that it really happened. Using your example, if there are no selected 
items, it would be potentially confusing to say "Stretch and fit items 
to time selection" because it didn't actually succeed.

Jamie

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