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<p>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>
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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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public archive, but of course I can put folks in contact if
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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="">
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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="">
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So yes, I'd love to be a tester even if we're only
at the playing stage for now.<br class="">
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Thanks.<br class="">
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