[Accessibility-testing] Fwd: IF blind player

[Jason McIntosh]

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.

(They are also a Player Panels member who sounds somewhat surprised at not getting tapped?)

(Name & email removed because of this list’s public archive, but of course I can put folks in contact if they desire.)

> Begin forwarded message:
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> Subject: IF blind player
> Date: January 24, 2019 at 12:29:37 AM EST
> To: jmac at iftechfoundation.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Despite me being involved in the Able Gamers Player Panel, I had no
> idea you were looking for testers for Interactive Fiction. I just saw
> the blog post but, upon seeing that the player panels are involved, I
> was shocked. I haven't got an email from them since October.
> 
> Despite this however, definitely consider me very interested in both
> helping accessibility of IF both as a player and as an aspiring
> author. I say aspiring author at this point because it appears that
> only the Sugar Cube Twine option is accessible when, perhaps, I'd like
> to use the default easier option. Adrift 5 is completely inaccessible
> and the developer doesn't seem to want to figure out a way to change
> it, even if suggestions are provided. The Quest desktop client is not
> too great either.
> 
> Inform is the closest to being accessible, but testing/debugging games
> in the default parchment runner internally in Inform... it needs work,
> as does being able to read errors and jumping to those lines in the
> code the errors reference. It may be easier on Windows... there are
> several blind Inform authors, however it was too slow and clunky on
> macOS using VoiceOver.
> 
> So yes, I'd love to be a tester even if we're only at the playing stage for now.
> 
> Thanks.

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