The actual details of making Alter Aeon accessible were much easier than for most projects, because the game server itself is purely text based and already had low spam modes. Most of the accessibility changes were additional filtering, special commands to display single pieces of information instead of an entire screen, and a dedicated blind mode that changed how certain things were displayed. None of these took a huge amount of time alone, but there were a lot of them.
As for why I originally did it, I thought it was amazing that the blind were playing the game, and I was bored, and I liked the person who asked. I keep doing it now because most of our players are blind and we have a solid community built up on the server. I consider the blind/VI crowd to be my largest target audience. As I mentioned above, keep in mind that Alter Aeon had a lot going for it right from the start: the server was purely text based, we had spam filters for other reasons, and our blind community started Mush-Z on their own. Most mainstream games will have zero of these things, and it'll be a LOT more work (if not impossible) to convince developers to support the blind. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Steven Cantos <earge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mr. developer of the Alteraeon Mud, > > You managed to actually make your game accessible. What did it take and why > did you decide to do it? In writing this question, I am assuming that you > are sighted and are merely sympathetic to the blind. > > Signed, > > Steven --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
