Well I've sent a message explaining the situations and registering my
disappointment, but I doubt it'll do any good sinse I don't think the
developer will change his format just for access.
Im a litle frustrated with the eamon situation.
99 percent of the games are purely text and do nothing whacky, and you'd
think that having a windows interpreter for them would be no more complex
than for any other of the old if formats, yet nobody seems at all bothered!
I'd really like to see a propper accessible windows interpreter that can
just read the old eamon files and play the games.
There are barely any text rpgs, and from what I've gathered through limited
playing with the current version of eamon delux, these are just the sort of
games we've been looking for, all in text.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Eamon Deluxe Update-12-27-2011
Hi Dark,
Unfortunately, this looks like a step backwards instead of forwards to
me. The reason Dosbox is inaccessible to a screen reader is because it
doesn't use the Windows API and uses a cross-platform generic graphics
toolkit. Since it doesn't use an API the screen readers were designed
to support the screen readers basically don't know what to do with it.
This is and has always been the problem with screen reader technology.
Each operating system has a default graphics toolkit such as the
Windows API for Windows, GTK+ for Linux, and Cocoa that the screen
reader was designed to support through specialized hooks in the API.
When a developer goes off the beaten path uses a non-standard API the
screen reader can't access the onscreen information because there
probably aren't any low-level hooks to pass important information on
to the screen reader or the screen reader was never designed to
support them if it does.
Something like the Windows XP Command Prompt is accessible because it
was designed using the Windows API. All of the menus and the command
prompt itself are all standard Windows controls which the screen
readers know about and can directly support through the Windows API
hooks. Where Dosbox obviously uses something else to make it
cross-platform and screen readers don't know what is on the screen
because the app is failing to broadcast that information through the
Windows API.
Cheers!
On 12/27/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
I recieved this from the Eamon delux announce mailing list, and to
forstall
questions, see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Eamon+delux
I'm not however sure whether or not this is goodnews, sinse with what the
developer says about Doxbox, I'm not sure if this also means the new
version
of Eamon delux will be as inaccessible as the Apple Ii emulation that
most
people use to play eamon. I don't however want to mail the developer and
tell him false information, because I'm not absolutely certain as to the
ins
and outs of why a screen reader will! work with a dos application in xp,
but
not with dosbox.
I really hope this is a step forward in tersm of access to eamon but I'm
not
absolutely sure, and perhaps Tom or someone with more technical knolidge
than me could contact the Eamon delux developer and ask the right
questions.
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