Transforming Graphical Interfaces into Auditory Interfaces

Abstract

Imagine that you are driving to work and running late for an irnporfant meeting. Realizing that you need to print out some reports before the meeting. you call into work and start your standard word processing application. By listening to the auditory cues, you navigate to the file menu which has the print option. You print your reports so that they will be waiting for you when you arrive. While you're connected, you start your standard email application and listen to any new email messages. You delete some messages and file others into some predefine folders, planing to reply to the rest of the messages later that morning.