ah cool.
On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Orin wrote:
To buy land and stuff it does, however if you don't want your own
house or anything than tha basic membership is free.
On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Matthew Elliff wrote:
does sl cost money? never even bothered with even thinking about it
til these postings.
On Sep 21, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Orin wrote:
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...
