[Accessibility-testing] Fwd: IF blind player

[Austin Seraphin]

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.


On 1/26/19 7:58 PM, Jason McIntosh wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> *Subject: **IF blind player*
>> *Date: *January 24, 2019 at 12:29:37 AM EST
>> *To: *jmac at iftechfoundation.org <mailto: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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