Hi Lisa, Well, I certainly haven't forgotten about the deaf blind gamers. Weather I included Sapi or not there would be text on the screen anyway. It could be read with the Jaws cursor, Window-Eyes mouse cursor, etc. The thing I really like about text based games is that they really are universally accessible. It doesn't matter if you are blind, deaf, sighted, etc they are equally playable. The only people triditional text adventures really leave out are those who can't type or those who have trouble spelling words.
For example, I do know someone who has a problem with putting sounds together to form words. He tries to sound words out and spell them like they sound and he ends up making some really unusual mistakes. His spelling is so bad Microsoft Word's spell checker can't even figure out the words. The only way he can really compose e-mails and things like that is to use something like Dragon Naturally Speaking which drastically reduces the number of words he has to type/spell. So obviously with a problem like that playing triditional text adventure games is beyond his abilities, or at the very least are difficult. Anyway, with that in mind I was thinking about trying my hand at something totally accessible to just about everyone. If someone is deaf-blind they could use their screen reader and braille display to read the screen. If they are just blind they can have the screen read aloud. If Someone has some sort of cognative disability where they can't read/write well that too can be resolved. Cheers! On 2/19/11, Lisa Hayes <lhay...@internode.on.net> wrote: > Thomas I like this idea a lot, the grab menu thing is good and the single > letters for directions is good to and easy. I like the screen reader > option, but am willing to try other voices. One thing I will say is don't > forget our deaf blind gamers, I nearly said dead blind, oh dear. Maybe an > option to output to a brailed display could be their somewhere. > Lisa Hayes > --- 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.