Provide (audio/braille) indication of activity while loading web page

[DrSooom]

Steps to reproduce:

• Visit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Tatort-Folgen

Actual behaviour:

Speech and braille:

"Document is loading..." or "Loading document..." "Document busy" "Loading Complete"

Expected behaviour:

Speech and braille:

"Document is loading..." or "Loading document..." "Document busy" "Loading Complete"

Additionally:

• an audible indication of activity: E.G. Beeps / earcon.
• braille indication of activity, E.G. rotating pins in a cell.

Beeps suggestion:

Add the following two checkboxes in the Browse Mode NVDA Settings:

• Beep signal instead of speech and braille announcement during loading a virtual document/web page The beep frequency should be at 440 Hz and its length at 100 ms. It should be repeated after every 1000 ms.
• Beep signal after a virtual document/web page finished loading The beep frequency should be at 440 Hz and its length at 25 ms. It should be played twice with a pause of 50 ms.

Notes:

• The beep signal will start on loading the document into the virtual buffer.
• It would be useful, if the user could change the beep frequency and its length via the GUI too.
• Both checkboxes should be disabled by default. So the current behaviour wouldn't be changed.

System configuration:

NVDA installed/portable:

Both

NVDA version:

2018.4.1

Windows version:

Win7 to Win10-1903

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

All supported Browsers, Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader etc.

[Brian1Gaff]

I want a download complete sound since Firefox navigational sounds are no longer available.

[Mary5958]

Bryan, there is another Firefox addon called Download Sound that plays a sound when a download is complete; it works nicely in the latest Firefox and also in Waterfox if you prefer.

[DrSooom]

@Mary5958: Thanks for the hint. Quote from my comment on issue #9261:

But there is no build-in sound feedback on loading a page, when a page finished loading and when a single or all downloads are finished. Until Firefox 56.0.2 the add-on "Navigational Sounds" was a nice one to get this sound feedback. The add-on Noise is working similar for Firefox 57.0+, but it's a little bit stupid to configure it.

Just for clarification: This issue here isn't talking about finished downloads – and also not about Firefox alone –, it regards to all applications which are using the virtual buffer (virtual documents, web pages, pdf files etc.).