Hi Payal, The Spoonbill software site has a dedicated crossword page for blind gamers. Visit http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/crosswords.htm This page has links to several downloadable British-style cryptic crosswords suitable for use with BG Crossword puzzle 1.0. Here is how BG Crossword Puzzle works: BG Crossword Puzzle 1.0 allows vision impaired and blind players to solve Crossword puzzles downloaded from the Internet. As with all Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers games, it is self-voicing, obviating the need to use your screen reader. For the benefit of vision-impaired players, the crossword is presented in the normal crossword grid format. In addition, the answer words and the clues are displayed in two lists which can be navigated using the arrow keys on your keyboard. This pair of lists can be maximized to fit your screen allowing the words to be more easily read. Blind players also use the arrow keys to move up and down the list of words and clues and can use the W key to speak the current word, or the C key to speak the current clue. By default the across words and clues are presented first. You can switch to a display of the down clues by hitting the D key on your keyboard, and back to the across clues by hitting the A key. There are many helpful features to make solving crosswords a pleasant experience. May we suggest that you follow the Tutorial when first starting up the program?
Here is how to order BG Crossword Puzzle 1.0: When ordering games in the Blind Gamers series from Spoonbill Software, it is important that you include the full name of each game you want to order. For instance BG Cribbage 2.1. The BG in front of the game name indicates that you want the blind accessible version of the game. Send your request to Ian Humphreys, together with your full name and country of residence to: [email protected] For example: My name is Karen Black from Ontario, Canada, please send the following games... If you want to order more than one game at a time, please include a list of the games you would like in a single e-mail, rather than send a separate e-mail for each game request. IMPORTANT: Please allow up to four days for delivery. I only process orders about twice a week to better manage my time and allow more time to develop new games. Hope this helps. Geetha -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of payal Sent: 13 January 2013 09:24 To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Information about accessible crossword puzzles Hi, As the subject says, I'm looking for sites where the crosswords are accessible and can be played either online or downloaded and then played. The sighted folk have many options, but do we? I have not tried working on any of those. Apparently dictionary.com offers some but I couldn't manage it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Payal Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind ia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
