Re: Texas Hold'em by Apple on iOS is accessible
Hi.
I have been playing around with this game for the past few hours, and I think it's got a long way to go before it becomes totally accessible, but it can be played, I guess, if you are willing to tolerate some weird stuff. Theta poker pro, being the app that I learned to play texas holdem with, kinda spoiled me in terms of accessibility, maybe I should consider this a little more...
first of all, the only accessible elements are the bare minimum, your chips, cards, the pot, the blind info and I think that's it, oh yeah and the community cards if they are turned up. Most of your actions are simple, bettting is done by tapping on your chips and moving the slider painfully slowly to the amount you want, I tried double tapping and holding, didn't work. Sometimes it would just stop spinning the slider and say doller null or something and play the boundary sound, and I had to refocus on it to get it to keep spinning. so ok, that kinda works. At least you know theoreticallly how much you need to call if you missed the dialogue of someone betting. Folding is done by dragging your cards to the pot, and going all in is the same but with the chips instead. Makes sense. But then, there's checking. you are supposed to double tap the table, but there is no table. What do you do? If community cards exist, you can tripple tap them, usually that works, although not all the time. But what if you are the big blind and have no more bets to call? You have to turn voiceover off, then double tap the table, and turn VO back on again. That's quite annoying.
Some stuff I didn't mention here but is useful to know, is in this applevis post by Pitermach.
https://applevis.com/apps/ios/games/texas-hold-em
I hope that Apple will come back to this and update it even further, but for now it is, playable for the most part.
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