[Accessibility-testing] Fwd: Accessibility

[deborah.kaplan at suberic.net]

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: <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
> 
> 
> 
>