Screenreaders, engines and advocacy

Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Some thoughts on the above. It's aimed at a few different audiences, including people who have little to know knowledge about accessibility, so apologies for the simplified explanation of what screenreaders are!http://ian-hamilton.com/screenreader

Screenreaders, engines and advocacy

Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Some thoughts on the above. It's aimed at a few different audiences, including people who have little to no knowledge of accessibility, so apologies if any of it is over-simplified!http://ian-hamilton.com/screenreaders-and-game-engines/ URL:

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy I've always run with the assumption that engine developers are the people we need to talk to, and who we need to convince that game accessibility is wanted and also viable. Most game devs are right, they just kind of throw their game on top

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Interesting article and one that sums up things pretty well. My only beef is that you asume that it's easy to get in touch with game developers or engine developers. While this approach work for indie developers such as those of skullgirls, one

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy from what I've heard about NRS, is that they kind of act like a small studio. They might be owned by Warner, but they seem to work that way. Also, freak, good points. A lot of dev do use custom engines although in many cases they're "h

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Well, NRS used to be Midway which was a good sized gaming corporation that developed everything from Mortal Kombat to Gauntlet to Unreal Championship. But the only reaso nthey implemented accessibility was because of a fighting game player who was

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy assault_freak wrote:Interesting article and one that sums up things pretty well. My only beef is that you asume that it's easy to get in touch with game developers or engine developers. While this approach work for indie developers such as tho

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Interesting stuff. As for chatting on twitter, there are problems with that too... people like Katsuhiro Harada, for example, the producer of a lot of games at Namko, gets probably thousands of tweets every day... as do similar folks from capcom and

Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy

Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Interesting stuff. As for chatting on twitter, there are problems with that too... people like Katsuhiro Harada, for example, the producer of a lot of games at Namko, gets probably thousands of tweets every day... as do similar folks from capcom and

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy It's easier to speak to people than you think, you just have to be sure to speak to individual people and not try to talk to corporations. There are lots who are happy to chat on Twitter. Yes, absolutely agree, a face to face chat is better

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Yeah but to use that Unreal example again, the person who developed the colourblind simulator wasn't a AAA producer with tens of thousands of followers, he's an environment artist with 406 followers.There are often one of two ways that peop

Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy

Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Yeah but to use that Unreal example again, the person who developed the colourblind simulator wasn't a AAA producer with tens of thousands of followers, he's an environment artist with 406 followers.There are often one of two ways that peop

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Agreed again. Hence why I said indie developers would be a better place to start. True that anyone in a company can have possible influence, but of course the higher ups aren't quite as guaranteed to listen to them. Skullgirls is a great examp

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Indie developers often don't have the tools, but they can push engine developers about the lack of tools. If every developer who had been frustrated with, for example, Unity's lack of support had actually complained about it / made a featu

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Re: Screenreaders, engines and advocacy Like I said, I can't comment on any developments regarding engines since I know nothing about that. True about indie developers being able to push engine developers... personally, I think they have much more clout than we do. lol URL: