>A piece of software that plays (at least) one sound on every user action, and the sounds are completely arbitrary and 8bit at best.
I've worked places that have SAP, Oracle, and one place that had both. I've never personally used SAP, and rarely dealt with Oracle.
I would be curious though, if it makes that many sounds - how much error checking is done because something "didn't sound right"? Does doing business tasks sort of turn into a song, with an expected sequence of sounds which feels wrong when not executed correctly?
If I'm typing and talking to someone at the same time, I intuitively know "I typed f rather than g, quick backspace and keep going". Do people internalize the pattern of noises they should hear while completing their work?
I assume that the sound refers to fact that about half of Windows SAPgui components are implemented by embedding MSHTML, which by default makes "click" sound for every onload event.
That sounds like a great feature for making software accessible to blind people. Even for sighted people, I can see how it could be useful.
The next step should be to have a database of standardised, free and open source sounds that can be used by any program, so that the same sound means roughly the same thing across all of them (assuming that this feature is not patent-encumbered).
You're better off spending your time making sure your general accessibility is up to snuff. Given standard OS widgets, textual error messages, proper i18n, etc. screen readers are much better at this than someone gluing on beeps and boops when they think appropriate.
>That sounds like a great feature for making software accessible to blind people.
Perhaps they should main for the larger market of making it accessible to sighted people first.
There are no words for how terrible the interface is. It is purely mouse driven and this is in no way a feature that increases accessibility to blind people.
A piece of software that plays (at least) one sound on every user action, and the sounds are completely arbitrary and 8bit at best.
Where you have to press 5 buttons in a row to do the one thing it's meant to do.
Where you have an angry fruit salad in a time sheet.
A piece of software that takes 30 minutes to enter your worksheet time. And lets you enter a special opex code for using it.
I felt the anger and hate of the man who coded it and every Friday I felt I knew that man better than anyone else I have ever known.