Accessible Watch Time Output Mode Lookup

Return an audio, haptic, tactile, inclusive-design, or terminology fact for accessible watch time output instead of inventing audible hands.

Description

Accessible time displays can communicate through sound, haptics or touch.

Accessible time displays can communicate through sound, haptics or touch. Design suitability depends on the user and the particular interaction.^[1]

Return an audio, haptic, tactile, inclusive-design, or terminology fact for accessible watch time output instead of inventing audible hands.

When to use Accessible Watch Time Output Mode Lookup

Use this tool to return an audio, haptic, tactile, inclusive-design, or terminology fact for accessible watch time output instead of inventing audible hands.

Choose a supported reference focus or prepare the watch measurements, evidence and explicit limits requested. Confirm units and date conventions before running.

How to use Accessible Watch Time Output Mode Lookup and understand its results

Choose a supported reference focus or prepare the watch measurements, evidence and explicit limits requested. Confirm units and date conventions before running.
Enter outputFocus using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read keyDate, outputFocus, verifiedStatement. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
outputFocus	Accessible watch time-output focus	string; one of "audio", "haptic", "tactile", "inclusiveDesign", "terminology"	Required

Select an exact supported outputFocus value from the field table and run the lookup. The implementation selects a fixed local table entry and returns the fields shown below. Matching is case-sensitive, with no trimming, synonyms or free-text search. Any keyDate output can be a date, period or context label.

result=stored entry for selected focus

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
keyDate	Accessibility context	string
outputFocus	Accessible watch time-output focus	string
verifiedStatement	Verified accessibility statement	string

json

{
  "input": {
    "outputFocus": "tactile"
  },
  "output": {
    "keyDate": "accessibility mode",
    "outputFocus": "tactile",
    "verifiedStatement": "A tactile watch communicates through touch; dial geometry, hand shape, and marker spacing must be designed and learned as an interface."
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No interface is tested, watch selected or accessibility certification supplied. No sources are fetched or statements updated at runtime.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Extremely large text inputs are rejected. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Minute Repeater Strike Count: Count hammer strikes for a two-gong minute repeater: hours, paired quarter-hour strikes, then minutes since the quarter. For a complementary task, use Flieger Dial Layout Lookup: Identify the historical Type A or Type B Flieger hour layout, minute track, and 12 o'clock treatment without claiming original B-Uhr provenance.

References

Accessible Watch Time Output Mode Lookup — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Minute Repeater Strike Count
Count hammer strikes for a two-gong minute repeater: hours, paired quarter-hour strikes, then minutes since the quarter.
Flieger Dial Layout Lookup
Identify the historical Type A or Type B Flieger hour layout, minute track, and 12 o'clock treatment without claiming original B-Uhr provenance.