#Textual clock update
#Textual clock full

T = _fig(currtime)+' o'clock' if currtime != 0 else _fig(currtime) 'fourteen', 'quarter', 'sixteen', 'seventeen', 'eighteen', 'nineteen', # - set starttime of morning, day, evening, night (whole hrs) Copy the code, save it as (again, exactly) tcalc.py, together with the icon above in one and the same directory. This is the module that produces the textual time and all other displayed information. Right-clck on it and save it as (exactly) indicator_icon.png

The solution exists of a script, a separate module and an icon, which you need to store in one and the same directory. Optionally, the time is displayed fuzzy rounded on five minutes, e.g. Speak out the time every quarter of an hour ( espeak required) Show all of them at once (or any combination of the three) Show the textual 'day-area' ( night, morning, day, evening) The indicator offers the following options: As a result, the answer below at least works for Unity and Mate and (tested) on Xubuntu.Ī GUI to change settings is still to follow (working on it), but I tested the indicator below for at least 20 hrs, and (as expected) it did the job without an error. '17:34').Textual / speaking clock for Mate and other Ubuntu variantsĪlthough the question was originally about Ubuntu Mate, luckily, from 15.10, indicators can be used on Mateas well.

#Textual clock full

However, this can sometimes be unreliable, as it's dependent on the exact timing of these two updates.Īria-atomic='true' ensures that each time the live region is updated, the entirety of the content is announced in full (e.g. One way around this would be to first clear all the contents of the live region (in this case, set the innerHTML of both and to be empty), and then inject the new content. For instance, when the clock changes from '17:33' to '17:34', assistive technologies will only announce '34', which won't be very useful to users.

On subsequent calls, only the parts of the content that changed compared to the previous content will be announced. The first time the function executes, the entirety of the string that is added will be announced.

#Textual clock update

Js const PLANETS_INFO = /* first run */ updateClock ( ) /* update every minute */ setInterval (updateClock, 60000 ) Basic example: Dropdown box updates useful onscreen information As such, it can be extremely annoying and disruptive and should only be used sparingly.Īs aria-live='off' is the assumed default for elements, it should not be necessary to set this explicitly, unless you're trying to suppress the announcement of elements which have an implicit live region role (such as role='alert'). Generally, a change to an assertive live region will interrupt any announcement a screen reader is currently making. The screen reader will speak changes whenever the user is idle.Īria-live='assertive' should only be used for time-sensitive/critical notifications that absolutely require the user's immediate attention. Any region which receives updates that are important for the user to receive, but not so rapid as to be annoying, should receive this attribute. Normally, only aria-live='polite' is used. This attribute is by far the most important. A live region is explicitly denoted using the aria-live attribute.Īria-live: The aria-live=POLITENESS_SETTING is used to set the priority with which screen reader should treat updates to live regions - the possible settings are: off, polite or assertive. Simple content changes which are not interactive should be marked as live regions.

Using ARIA: Roles, states, and propertiesĭynamic content which updates without a page reload is generally either a region or a widget.