Love the concept--I only wish now I had a Windows computwer to test
with.
Maybe they will put together something for the Mac.
Also, I'd like it better if I didn't have to use a cane or guide dog--
that makes us stick out more. Not so much in that island, but say I
wanted to hang out with others or have a different chatacter or
something *shrug*
Jane
On Sep 21, 2008, at 10:17 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...
