Allow VS Code extensions to trigger audio cues

[therobinkim]

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Feature request: I'm creating a VS Code extension, and I wish I could trigger audio cues!

These audio cues could be the ones that already exist.

It'd also be amazing if I could trigger custom audio cues (eg, a 440 Hertz tone for 150 milliseconds).

This would be particularly helpful for me when my VS Code extension fails early out of a command (eg, maybe there are no results to show for my custom search command) and an audio cue gets triggered so that I'm not relying only on hard to see visual cues.

[meganrogge]

cc @isidorn for thoughts

[vscodenpa]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[isidorn]

Fair feature request, but backlog candidates for now is the right course of action imho.
@therobinkim can you provide more details about your extension? How would you use audio cues?

[meganrogge]

a use case of @jooyoungseo #176521

[balajip881]

Hi vscode members,

We should not treat accesssibility issue and normal user issues same. As screen reader users are very less in number compared to normal developer. So please consider this issue and move it to backlog so that team can implement soon.

Please consider this issue even if it does not get 20 upvotes. Thanks.

[meganrogge]

Hi @balajip881 what is your use case/ which extension would you like this to apply to?

[balajip881]

extention name : bookmarks
alefragnani/vscode-bookmarks#601

[vadimkholodilo]

This feature would be very useful for the Bookmarks extension discussed above. In Visual Studio this feature is already implemented. Bookmarks speed up code navigation for screen reader users. Especially, in pare programming. Please, move this feature to the backlog