From jmac at jmac.org Tue May 26 12:33:08 2020 From: jmac at jmac.org (Jason McIntosh) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 12:33:08 -0400 Subject: [Accessibility-testing] Fwd: Accessibility References: <001801d6286d$bf4dedb0$3de9c910$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi folks, I hope this finds you all well. I got the following email a couple of weeks ago from a vision impaired teacher and IF fan with questions about NVDA and its Frotz add-on, which I think some of you are familiar with? If any of y'all have some advice on dealing with that software’s recent updates, consider getting in touch with her. (I have directed her to https://audiogames.net as well.) > Begin forwarded message: > > From: > Subject: Accessibility > Date: May 12, 2020 at 10:58:07 AM EDT > To: > > Hi Jason, > My name is Beth Brassel and I am a librarian at the public library in Lowell, MA. Thanks to Brendan Desilets, we have had a weekly interactive fiction club for the past 9 years. Brendan has introduced countless students (and me!) to the fun of interactive fiction. Brendan sent me a link to your report on interactive fiction and issues of accessibility. > > As the years have gone by, I have slowly lost most of my vision. I have been trying to learn to play IF with a screen reader (NVDA and Jaws). Not only do I want to learn to play it with my screen reader for myself (fun), but I am also anxious to introduce it to a group of young people at our local association for the blind. I have to confess, that I have been mostly stymied. This past year I found a NVDA add on for Frotz and it worked very well. After the most recent update to NVDA, the add on no longer works. Whew… this is long winded email asking if you have a suggestion of how / who I could contact for help with this. Thank you so much for all the great work you do. Take Care, Beth > > Beth Brassel > Young Adult Librarian > Pollard Memorial Library > 401 Merrimack Street > Lowell, MA 01852 > 978.674.1543 | ebrassel at lowelllibrary.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deborah.kaplan at suberic.net Tue May 26 15:29:44 2020 From: deborah.kaplan at suberic.net (deborah.kaplan at suberic.net) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:29:44 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Subject: [Accessibility-testing] Fwd: Accessibility In-Reply-To: References: <001801d6286d$bf4dedb0$3de9c910$@gmail.com> Message-ID: It looks like Nick Stockton updated the plugin in February for 2019.3, but NVDA is now at 2020.1. I spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out if the new version on github works with 2020.1, but I couldn't successfully build an addon package NVDA liked from the code, so I may have been doing something wrong. https://github.com/nstockton/nvda-add-ons If nobody has better answers I could reach out to Nick (whom I don't know) and see what the status is. I could help out with a patch but I'd need a bootstrap to do it quickly; I've never written an NVDA extension. But, you know, Massachusetts librarian solidarity. But some of you might have more information, so I defer to the rest of y'all. deborah On Tue, 26 May 2020, Jason McIntosh wrote: > Hi folks, > I hope this finds you all well. I got the following email a couple of weeks ago from a vision impaired teacher > and IF fan with questions about NVDA and its Frotz add-on, which I think some of you are familiar with? If any > of y'all have some advice on dealing with that software’s recent updates, consider getting in touch with her. > > (I have directed her to https://audiogames.net as well.) > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: > Subject: Accessibility > Date: May 12, 2020 at 10:58:07 AM EDT > To: > > Hi Jason, > My name is Beth Brassel and I am a librarian at the public library in Lowell, MA.  Thanks to Brendan > Desilets, we have had a weekly interactive fiction club for the past 9 years.  Brendan has introduced > countless students (and me!)  to the fun of interactive fiction.    Brendan sent me a link to your report > on  interactive fiction and issues of accessibility. > > As the years have gone by, I have slowly lost most of my vision.   I have been trying to learn to play IF > with a screen reader (NVDA and Jaws).  Not only do I want to learn to play it with my screen reader for > myself (fun), but I am also anxious to introduce it to a group of young people at our local association > for the blind.  I have to confess, that I have been mostly stymied.  This past year I found a NVDA add on > for Frotz and it worked very well.  After the most recent update to NVDA, the add on no longer works. > Whew… this is long winded email asking if you have a suggestion of how / who I could contact for help with > this.    Thank you so much for all the  great work you do.  Take Care, Beth > > Beth Brassel > Young Adult Librarian > Pollard Memorial Library > 401 Merrimack Street > Lowell, MA 01852 > 978.674.1543 | ebrassel at lowelllibrary.org > > > >