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Assets '98: Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

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https://doi.org/10.1145/274497.274504

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In this paper, we discuss the choice of specific sounds to use in an audio HTML interface, based on our previous research into developing principles for sound choice, called the AHA framework. AHA can be used along with the consideration of issues related to the target audience such as user tasks, goals, and interests to choose specific sounds for an interface. We describe two scenarios of potential users and interfaces that would seem to be appropriate for them.

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