Hi all, Yesterday, while attempting to find updates on this project since the blind second life blog doesn't seem to be updating anymore with this new-found info, I'll say it below.
Luise Later, an SL real life visually impaired (Not totally blind) user created both a cane and a guide dog, scripted, mind you, to alert us of portals etc when navigating. I don't know what the difference between the cane or guide dog are, or weather you need both of them, but regardless the items are free. She also uses a SL screen reader (Well I think it's being made into one) called EVA, which speaks objects around you. Don't ask me how that works. I just created my SL account from Virtual Ability which, BTW, makes the account sign up for second life as accessible as filling out a form. An accessible form, that is. Oh, did I mention audio captcha? And since I'm also sending this out to Mac lists, I'll just say this. I haven't tried the SL client yet with VoiceOver. Thus, I have yet to find out if you can even interact with anything for even just logging in. I guess logging into SL is accessible on the windows side. I'll be trying this all out tomorrow, asuming I don't have any homework. And before I forget, the cane/dog development team does have one totally blind developer, so it's not just VI working on the project. Sure, it's only one, but at least he's giving feedback to the project for totally blind users. The reason why we can't use it on Mac is just one problem, even if you can login with VO. Eva. Eva is for windows only. Without that, we can't communicate and hear what's around us. Okay. Well, here is the blog posting on the promotion of Luise's presentation on this which we all mist. http://tentacolor.com/2008/08/30/the-scripted-leading-the-blind Hope to see all you guys who like testing an incompleted product to come join me. I'd hate to do this alone with the team. Or, at least, I think I'd be the only one... --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
