Subject: Re: bug#1305: Please disable the audible bell by default, to avoid discouraging newbies in crowded offices and elsewhere

From: "Jason Spiro" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:15:29 -0500

2008/11/9 Xavier Maillard <[email-masked]> wrote:
> What if the screen reader is not working correctly ? The visible
> bell could be used to check that something, at least, is working.

We could make a function like M-x ring-audible-bell (but you should
choose a better name than that) that would let blind / VI (visually
impaired) users know that Emacs is working.  Or we could design Emacs
so that when they launch Emacs using the command "emacspeak", then C-g
will always ring the audible bell.

This would be slightly more inconvenient for blind / VI users, but IMO
much better for fully sighted users.