<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m processing the requests from the volunteers that Zack rustled up now, and wanted to share this one in particular, coming from a member of the blind gamer community who wants to use IF creation tools, Twine and Inform included. I of course stand by our decision to drop that facet from our testing, but I think this is a nice reminder that the interest is out there.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(They are also a Player Panels member who sounds somewhat surprised at not getting tapped?)<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Name & email removed because of this list’s public archive, but of course I can put folks in contact if they desire.)</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">IF blind player</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 24, 2019 at 12:29:37 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:jmac@iftechfoundation.org" class="">jmac@iftechfoundation.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">Despite me being involved in the Able Gamers Player Panel, I had no<br class="">idea you were looking for testers for Interactive Fiction. I just saw<br class="">the blog post but, upon seeing that the player panels are involved, I<br class="">was shocked. I haven't got an email from them since October.<br class=""><br class="">Despite this however, definitely consider me very interested in both<br class="">helping accessibility of IF both as a player and as an aspiring<br class="">author. I say aspiring author at this point because it appears that<br class="">only the Sugar Cube Twine option is accessible when, perhaps, I'd like<br class="">to use the default easier option. Adrift 5 is completely inaccessible<br class="">and the developer doesn't seem to want to figure out a way to change<br class="">it, even if suggestions are provided. The Quest desktop client is not<br class="">too great either.<br class=""><br class="">Inform is the closest to being accessible, but testing/debugging games<br class="">in the default parchment runner internally in Inform... it needs work,<br class="">as does being able to read errors and jumping to those lines in the<br class="">code the errors reference. It may be easier on Windows... there are<br class="">several blind Inform authors, however it was too slow and clunky on<br class="">macOS using VoiceOver.<br class=""><br class="">So yes, I'd love to be a tester even if we're only at the playing stage for now.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>