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Accessibility. Game is not accessible for blind players #69

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sevapopov2 opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 3 comments
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Accessibility. Game is not accessible for blind players #69

sevapopov2 opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 3 comments
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accessibility Relates to accessibility issue for anybody enhancement New feature or request investigation-required Issue needs to be firstly identified

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@sevapopov2
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Hello,
First, thank you for this project, it can be a good base and reference for me to use in case of learning about audio game development.
But there is an issue:
I am a blind player and this game is not accessible for me as for screen reader user.
You can use the following library to provide accessibility for screen readers and keyboard access:
accessible_output2
Thank you!

@JimZhouZZY
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Hi,
I'm Jim, one of the contributors.
Thanks for this suggestion. Actually, I have thought of adding keyboard access to the project and have already done a little. The screen reader requires us converting all displayed characters to text output (and then to audio output), which is a lot of work and might take some time to done. But still i would like to take it into consideration. (smiling emoji)
Best wishes!

@Grimmys
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Grimmys commented Aug 7, 2023

Hello @sevapopov2,

That's true that accessibility was never really taken into account for this project, and that's a shame.
To be honest, I never really implemented anything like this, so it would be new for me, but I'm really looking forward to learn how to do it.

Thanks @JimZhouZZY btw for your implication.

The screen reader requires us converting all displayed characters to text output (and then to audio output), which is a lot of work and might take some time to done.

Hmmm I guess there should be a way to automate this process.
Especially knowing that soon every string displayed on the screen should be located around the same place (because of internalization system), I guess all the strings from there could be sent to the screen reader?

But yeah still it will require time to investigate how to do it properly.

@Grimmys Grimmys added enhancement New feature or request investigation-required Issue needs to be firstly identified accessibility Relates to accessibility issue for anybody and removed enhancement New feature or request labels Aug 12, 2023
@sevapopov2
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Hello,
Thank you for your answers!
You can ask on audiogames forum for consultation about providing accessibility of the game. I am sure people will help with that!
From my point I am ready to test the project and report bugs when accessibility starts implementing!
Thank you!

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