Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi all!Adding to Marks last message, here are the current keystrokes for the Talking client:[]Left/Right-Arrows: Move through text via word.*] Up/Down-Arrows: Move through text via line.Escape: Spell current word that the cursor

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi all!Adding to Marks last message, here are the current keystrokes for the Talking client:[]Left/Right-Arrows: Move through text via word.*] Up/Down-Arrows: Move through text via line.Escape: Spell current word that the cursor

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Quick update on the TriadCity talking client.With quite a lot of awesome testing by Trenton, the Chrome version is now working. This means the new client is no longer limited to Mac users, so, interested Windows folks, please have

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi all!Adding to Marks last message, here are the current keystrokes for the Talking client:Left/Right-Arrows: Move through text via word.Up/Down-Arrows: Move through text via line.Escape: Spell current word that the cursor is on.A Quick

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi all!Adding to Marks last message, here are the current keystrokes for the Talking client:Left/Right-Arrows: Move through text via word.*] Up/Down-Arrows: Move through text via line.Escape: Spell current word that the cursor

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Again this is a very good game and Id recommend checking it out.__Fut Coins URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=204428#p204428 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Youre very welcome.Currently running the Chrome OS beta channel.I truly hope the Chrome team can fix these issues in a timely maner. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=197554#p197554

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Late to the party as it were, but I have signned up for this fine world!Ill be testing it with Chromevox on my Chromebook to see how well things go.Heres the Support For Blind And VI Users page, as I dont think it was ever shared here

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Trenton, unfortunately still no joy with any of the Chrome or Chromium derivatives. Youll find that Chrome speaks some of the necessary output, but stops before the end.And to make things worse, the latest Safari shipping

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hello,Can we still alphatest the game?For Ipad/iPhone, you could try a speech recognizing approach, seems better than typing on the virtual keyboard.For Windows, there is an universal screenreader api, can mail it to you if you want

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers [[wow]]! Sounds really useful. Ill give this a try. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193515#p193515 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Im not sure I like the idea of solving the problem of limited screen reader support by abandoning the cause of web access; after all it looks like this thing has the potential to be the next UI for everybody, not just the blinks.I am

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Sebby, thanks for the thoughtful comments.I wouldnt infer abandonment of the cause of web access; rather, making multiple paths to access available while the standards are becoming understood and the vendors are getting them right

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Sebby, thanks for the thoughtful comments.I wouldnt infer abandonment of the cause of web access; rather, making multiple paths to access available while the standards are becoming understood and the vendors are getting them right

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Aha, now I understand re your speech API usage; in that case it seems much more plausible.I do appreciate what youre saying about the direction of tablet computing, but I also think theres something definitely not right about it. I cant

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Aha, now I understand re your speech API usage; in that case it seems much more plausible.I do appreciate what youre saying about the direction of tablet computing, but I also think theres something definitely not right about it. I cant

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.I tried the world very briefly yesterday, and its quite nice. I like the easy commands.However, for me, having the speech read the whole output to me doesnt work very well. why? The speech client cant go back and read word by word

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Thanks Soren!IMO spelling names is even more of a problem than you suggest, because game players invent interesting and unusual character names. I dont think many native English speakers could spell Chiensha!Others have made the same

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers You might also consider a show objects ad spell objects reference to give players an idea of what they can interact with in the current location. Btw, my screen reader pronounced chiensha as Cheensha, and it couldve equally said the same

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers The standard Room description command, Look, outputs the Room title, Room description, list of Items in the Room, list of characters in the Room, and list of Exits from the Room. Granted thats an earful sometimes, we could easily add new

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers The standard Room description command, Look, outputs the Room title, Room description, list of Items in the Room, list of characters in the Room, and list of Exits from the Room. Granted thats an earful sometimes, we could easily add new

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.The ability to press backspace adn and here what character youve deleted would also be a great thing to add. maybe, if I press backspace I might here. @H@ and not, @H has been deleted@ Since that would be a bit time consuming.Brad

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.The ability to press backspace and here what character youve deleted would also be a great thing to add. maybe, if I press backspace I might here. H and not, H has been deleted Since that would be a bit time consuming.Brad. URL: http

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers FYI, weve implemented an initial version of the speech cache idea mentioned above. Its super-simple, but it does seem to work!Basics: use the arrow keys to navigate the cache. Up arrow takes you to the beginning of the cache; down arrow

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Id love to try the alpha.One suggestion though before I try it: I know that you are talking about muds and technologies like that. and flash. but have you ever thought of doing TTS processing server-side? I know many companies

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.I managed to try this program.It works great. The only thing is theres a bit of lag when typing. That could be my internet connection though, so dont take my word on that.it runs kind of like a mud, you type commands, press enter

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers @MArk, Flash has its problems it is true, and Ive seen some horrible access issues caused by it, I just mentioned flash because Ive seen flash used across websites to access the sapi on the subjects computer. Harrielsts direct speech

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.@dark.Youve forgot one thing.Voice input.Im sure thats what they would go with if they would make a ios version. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193325#p193325

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Brad. There was a recent discussion of this on the audeasy list funnily enough. Voice input thus far doesnt seem accurate enough to give commands to a game in a realistic parza, sinse its accuracy seems questionable. Its a good %70

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Voice inputs where were going on mobile and tablets. Well have an alpha on Android soon-ish. A month lets say. Although Ive been consistently wrong with every prediction Ive ever made.Two things to keep in mind re voice input for any

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers brad wrote:The thing is, it can only get better from here.Yes. Very definitely alpha today. But, improving rapidly thanks to the awesome feedback.Really appreciate the supportive feedback, Brad!Cheers,--Mark URL: http

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Voice inputs where were going on mobile and tablets. Well have an alpha on Android soon-ish. A month lets say. Although Ive been consistently wrong with every prediction Ive ever made.Two things to keep in mind re voice input for any

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.having tried the game on my macbook, I have to say, the game is good but, if the game could read the next piece of info to you after pressing enter. Instead of having to find the heading, read, then read the action you just took

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.Just an update. You can play this game with NVDA. and Im guessing JAWS will work too. Its a webpage stile game. And its fun. Check it out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193222#p193222

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.having tried the game on my macbook, I have to say, the game is good but, if the game could read the next piece of info to you after pressing enter. Instead of having to find the heading, read, then read the action you just took

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.having tried the game on my macbook, I have to say, the game is good but, if the game could read the next piece of info to you after pressing enter. Instead of having to find the heading, read, then read the action you just took

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hello TriadCity, unfortunately I am a windows user, so cant try out this awesome sounding Alpha!Im not sure if you are aware that every blind computer user has their own screen reader customized to their preferences. It is very easy

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Brad:Greatly appreciate the effort youve made!The client you’ve been interacting with is the standard GUI with all the usual bells and whistles. It coverts a data stream coming from the game world into a format which browsers can

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi frastlin, I think we crossed messages just now as I was responding to Brad.Ill study up on the libraries you mention.The downside to the way our technology works is that the game world is continually pushing information to the players

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi frastlin, I think we crossed messages just now as I was responding to Brad.Ill study up on the libraries you mention.The downside to the way our technology works is that the game world is continually pushing information to the players

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Brad:Greatly appreciate the effort youve made!The client you’ve been interacting with is the standard GUI with all the usual bells and whistles. It coverts a data stream coming from the game world into a format which browsers can

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi frastlin, I think we crossed messages just now as I was responding to Brad.Ill study up on the libraries you mention.The accessibility downside to the way our technology works is that the game world is continually pushing information

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Brad:Greatly appreciate the effort youve made!The client you’ve been interacting with is the standard GUI with all the usual bells and whistles. It coverts a data stream coming from the game world into a format which browsers can

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi. First, welcome to the forum, and thanks for the news of the game. NEw releases is for, well newly released and playable games, Alpha and betas included, so dont worry about breaking any rules, if you have any questions about

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Dark! Thank you for the thoughtful response - and I really was hoping to not break any rules!TriadCitys not a MUD, although it incorporates aspects of the MU* traditions. Its evolved to be somewhat more like Second Life, in the sense

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Mark. Glad you found my responses helpful. To be honest the mud suggestion was more one of interface than of processing, sinse I wasnt sure if you were aware of muds from your initial post, (though as I looked at your site

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hmm, thanks for that post. Im an alpha tester myself, but at first glance, it looks like a mud. Plus, I hope that if I go into System Prefrences and raise my speech rate that my rate will go up. Its incredibily slow right now. URL: http

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi Orin:Youre in the talking UI? You can type faster or talk faster or speed up, and the setting will be saved. (faster is the canonical command but there are a pile of natural alternatives.)--M URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi again Dark:Ill study up on SAPI.To complicate things, along with trying hard to make a genuinely accessible UI, were also committed to adapting to general trends in the computing world. One of those is that Flash like all plugins

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi again Dark:Ill study up on SAPI.To complicate things, along with trying hard to make a genuinely accessible UI, were also committed to adapting to general trends in the computing world. One of those is that Flash like all plugins

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers

Re: Seeking Blind or Visually Impaired Alpha Testers Hi.[[wow]], this sounds really cool. Im very busy at the moment, but Ill make a priority and check this out as soon as possible. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193265#p193265