[Accessibility] Support task completion/failure audio cues in Output

[jooyoungseo]

CC @meganrogge

Many extensions, such as microsoft/vscode-arduino, use Output view and display compile results like below:

Could you please support task completion and failure audio cues in output view as well? Currently, it is very tedious to read through the results line by line.

[meganrogge]

Seems like a reasonable request, though I'm not sure what would be involved here. @sandy081 do you think this would be possible?

cc @isidorn

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[sandy081]

Output view uses editor in the background. @alexdima Does the output view has to do anything special to enable accessibility features ?

[meganrogge]

@jooyoungseo , to confirm, are you requesting that the audio gets played when you run the command depending on success or failure?

if so, I think we'd need extension API to support this

[jooyoungseo]

@meganrogge -- Yes, that's exactly correct.

[meganrogge]

@benmcmorran you have more context on what goes on with this particular extension. thoughts on the below?

I spoke with @isidorn and he brought up some great points:

1. Could the arduino extension use a task for this so that no additional steps are needed for the task failure/success audio cues to happen?
2. If not, the arduino extension should consider playing our task completion / failure sounds within the extension instead of API. An example of an extension that plays audio cues is Liveshare.

[benmcmorran]

The Arduino extension currently does not use a task for this, but I agree that that would be a sensible refactoring and there are similar requests on the issue tracker (e.g. microsoft/vscode-arduino#1376).

In the short term, I think your second option makes sense.

[meganrogge]

@benmcmorran thanks for your reply. are either of those something you plan to do in the near future? It seems like an important feature