It sounds a lot like “auditory icons” as used in Emacspeak [0] and some other environments to improve accessibility for people with vision impairments. Bill Bu

It sounds a lot like “auditory icons” as used in Emacspeak [0] and some other environments to improve accessibility for people with vision impairments. Bill Buxton [1] seems to have a good treatment of the subject but i don’t know what’s autoritative [0] https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Auditory-Icons.html https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Auditory-Icons.ht... [1] https://www.billbuxton.com/AudioUI06icons.pdf https://www.billbuxton.com/AudioUI06icons.pdf