what is android lacking? I've had my tablet for a few days now and am
finding it is as easy to use as IOS or iphone. I've used I've owned an
iphone before. also my son found a racing game and I listened to him
playing it and it has all the good quality of an iphone app or game. I
can turn talkback off and on as easily as I can with voiceover.
quickoffice is accessible with word, and spreadsheets and such. in the
new firefox beta you can go by links and headings and stuff. you can
even customise the gestures. all the apps I've been putting on it from
the play store are working flawlessly with 4.4 kitkat and 4.3 jellybean
before I upgraded. Check out these high quality android audio games.
http://en.blind-faith-games.e-ucm.es/
and someone also made a game you play with gps called open field echo
sounder. yesterday I took my nexus7 tablet in a bag and turned talkback
off to give to my mom to take pictures, then I just turned talkback back
on. Its as easy as turning nvda off and on in windows7 or windows xp. in
the meantime until there's more games I can settle for the games from
the website above and also lockpick, audio archery, txtfl and some
others. Using android especially with the latest talkback and kitkat OS
feels very much like using an iphone.
Josh
using windows7 laptop
On 1/5/2014 7:34 PM, Draconis wrote:
Hi,
Since you sent a support ticket to us regarding this almost simultaneous with
your post on the list, I thought we’d address this here for others who may be
interested.
Android has made significant strides, but it is nowhere near as accessible or
as well supported as iOS.
We’ll continue to evaluate the platforms we support, but given the huge
resources required to develop for Android, the extremely small market, and the
nightmare of supporting a platform as fragmented as Android is, we don’t
anticipate it will ever be commercially viable.
Some hobbyist developers will surely develop for it, but I don’t see it being a
viable platform for commercial accessible game makers in the foreseeable
future, regardless of the accessibility factor.
As far as DoItWrite…that app is a tutorial and game for using a VoiceOver
feature…a feature which Android doesn’t even have…so it would be virtually
impossible, and absolutely pointless, to release that for Android, so I’m a bit
confused on what exactly you would want in terms of DoItWrite on Android.
At this point, we’re supporting three major platforms. If the Android situation
improves and we expand to the point where we could handle a fourth, we might
consider it, but it does not make any sense for us at this time.
There are reasons why iOS has virtually all the great apps and games, even for
the sighted audience, and most, if not all, of those apply even more so to the
visually impaired market.
Hope this helps.
Draconis Entertainment
“…feel the power…wield the magic…"
http://DraconisEntertainment.com
http://twitter.com/DracoEnt
On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Josh <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Thomas, it would be cool if you could make a game similar to papa sangre but
for android. I have an android nexus7 tablet. I like it better than the iPod
touch. Wish I could play the papa sangre games though. Could someone into
programming maybe make a duck hunt audio game and maybe q9 for android? put it
up on the playstore let me know when its there I'll gladly pay $4 or $5 even
$10 for such a good quality android game. or how about a droid version of
swamp? honestly droid accessibility is on par with iphone and voiceover and
nvda for windows. oh yes swamp for droid! if you make it I'll pay $10 for that
also! walk by alternately tapping first put your device in landscape mode then
tap ottom left and bottom right of screen to walk or run. to go backwards swipe
down with a finger then walk, swipe up then walk for forwards. swipe up then
down in single motion to toggle between weapons. tap top left of screen to
reload weapon if needed. tap top right to shoot, tap and hold to shoot as in
with a machine gun. slowly swipe across the middle of the screen to turn
yourself around in different directions and to center zombies. better yet, put
your headphones on and stand up. since your device has a sensor, a compass and
things you can stand up to play the game. to turn and face a zombie hold the
phone or tablet in hand and turn your body around like when you spin in a
circle. to hear current direction swipe left and right quickly. wear headphones
while playing swamp for droid works on jellybean and above. while playing,
suspend talkback by making down and right gesture the l gesture. go near top
left of screen while in swamp main menu do this suspend talkback swamp main
menu would be self-voiceing. to turn on talkback again when done tap power
button once to put device to sleep. hit it again to wake it up and talkback
will wake up too then slide to unlock.
Josh
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using windows7 laptop
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