[Accessibility-testing] Fwd: Accessibility

[Jason McIntosh]

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 <https://audiogames.net/> as well.)

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: <bbrassel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Accessibility
> Date: May 12, 2020 at 10:58:07 AM EDT
> To: <president at iftechfoundation.org>
> 
> 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 <mailto:ebrassel at lowelllibrary.org>
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