<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="">Hey,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOr that matter, I never got any player panels messages about this either.</div><div class="">THanks,</div><div class="">Zack.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Mark Barlet <<a href="mailto:mark@ablegamers.org" class="">mark@ablegamers.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">That is strange. Can you send me the contact off list and I will ask the team to see what broke?<br class=""><br class="">Mark<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 4:25 PM Austin Seraphin <<a href="mailto:austin@austinseraphin.com" class="">austin@austinseraphin.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">Interesting. I'd love to see these tools become more accessible.
I agree about Inform on Mac OS. I tried it on Linux as well and it
had a clunky interface even for those standards. If they have
received an update in the last two or three years I could give it
another shot. I didn't think to test it because it never came up.</p></div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class=""><br class="">
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<div class="m_-6475032014956632584moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/19 7:58 PM, Jason McIntosh
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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.
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<div class="">(They are also a Player Panels member who sounds
somewhat surprised at not getting tapped?)
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<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>
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<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;" 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="">
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<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="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:jmac@iftechfoundation.org" target="_blank" class="">jmac@iftechfoundation.org</a><br class="">
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<div class="">Hello,<br class="">
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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="">
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