[Audyssey] Cthulhu nation accessibility assistance!
Greetings. Well, if people remember the Cthulhu nation game, I've been looking into it and contacting the admins, whoI will say are being incredibly nice about access related issues (read their mail at the bottom of this). I've had a brief look at the game, and it appears to function similar to Gothador, with a map of 9 squares and coordinates, and the player moving betwene them via clicking the coordinate lables, I don't believe, however all necessary information for the map is contained merely in text (I've told the admins about this). to view stats, inventory etc it's necessary to click on some game gif immages (and read the link text), and I haven't managed to work out the inventory and equipping system at all yet (again, I've contacted the admins of the game reguarding this). At the moment I'm horribly busy rehearsing for a production, and anyway there's only one of me, so I'd really appreciate it if some other people could put their heads together over this, look into Cthulhu nation and make access related suggestions to the admins, especially people who know more about web design and screen reader access than I do. Any help would be much appreciated, --- by me and by future Vi players of this game. Beware the Cthu! Dark. - Original Message - From: six To: Dark ; vampraist Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:56 PM Subject: Re: cthulhu nation accessibility Hi Luke, Thanks for getting in touch. To be honest, we have never had a request like this before, and it never even entered our heads. But that's just the ignorance on our part! Having read your request a couple of times, we are still a little unclear as to what you would like us to actually consider to help you. From what we understand so far, you can read the text, but it is the images (for example the board tiles) that you have difficulty with? Further, to help with this, you would like to see some sort of pop-up text bos with a name or description of the tile, for example Watson's General Store for a shop, or Mountain Region for a landscape tile? You mention that you use a speech synthesizer to read the text. Again, this is a new area to us, and we would be interested to hear how you accomplish this, particularly with regard to the many text boxes and written explanations within Cthulhu Nation. With regard to the pop-up text for the graphics, how far ranging on this idea were you thinking? Just the board game tiles, or other areas as well? We would obviously have to look at the total requirements for setting up these text windows, and how much work would be involved. If it seemed fairly straight forward, this might not be an issue. Finally, how did you envisage this happening? Would it be a case of the cursor hovering over the tile to produce the pop-up, or would there be a different/better requirement for your needs? Thanks once again for your email, and we are indeed intrigued by your request. Let me know if what I have said is along the right conclusions, and possibly expand on your requests to help us further with this issue. Regards, Six (Cthulhu Nation Admin) Dark wrote: Hello. I was really interested to ffind out about the Cthulhu nation mmorp. Not only is having a game set in the lovecraft mythos a great idea, but also looking at the way the game works, quests and investigation seem to play a huge part in the game, rather than just constant pvp as in many of the mmorps I've seen, which is exellent. the only problem is, I am visually impared and use a speech synthesiser to read text on the internet. most of the in game text, character creation and viewing of stats and items etc is quite accessible to screen reading software, however it seems that the map, being entirely image based, is not. I was therefore wondering if you might considder adding text lables for the various map tyles, sinse this is (from what I see thus far), the only thing stopping visually impared people from enjoying (though if that is the right word when applied to lovecraft), Cthulhu nation. With all of the Lovecraft writings available online, and the game's emphasis on investigation and a rich back story, I think quite a lot of visually impared gamers would be incredibly interested in playing, so I very much hope you'll considder adding the appropriate lables. all the best, Luke. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.18/1255 - Release Date: 01/02/2008 09:59 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL
Re: [Audyssey] cthulhu nation
Hi orin. As has been said, the movement on the game is annoyingly based on clicking immage based tyles on a map (I couldn't even find them with Hal as links which was weerd). I Have however practiced all my diplomacy and sent the developers of the game a hopefully polite E-mail about the map. I'll let everyone know what happens. Beware the Cthulhu! Dark. A - Original Message - From: Orin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:01 PM Subject: [Audyssey] cthulhu nation Hi all, Has anyone played this game and had any luck with the map? I find it a bit confusing, and was just wondering if anyone had tried it out. The game is set in the 1920's, and this orginazation known as The Group wants you to go out and kill all types of creatures, I don't know how the storyline goes but I will say that it does sound complex. You can find the game at: http://www.cthulhunation.co.uk/ Hopefully a few of you can try it out and let me know if it's playable. I have already tried it, and as I said found it quite confusing, but if I do indeed learn how to play this I'm gonna continue doing it, it looks huge. It's set in a horror setting. Enjoy. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.17/1253 - Release Date: 31/01/2008 09:09 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Audyssey] cthulhu nation
Hi all, Has anyone played this game and had any luck with the map? I find it a bit confusing, and was just wondering if anyone had tried it out. The game is set in the 1920's, and this orginazation known as The Group wants you to go out and kill all types of creatures, I don't know how the storyline goes but I will say that it does sound complex. You can find the game at: http://www.cthulhunation.co.uk/ Hopefully a few of you can try it out and let me know if it's playable. I have already tried it, and as I said found it quite confusing, but if I do indeed learn how to play this I'm gonna continue doing it, it looks huge. It's set in a horror setting. Enjoy. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] cthulhu nation
hi we stuck as the game is based on tiles. tiles represent quests. again looks like we have to ask again for accessibility left behind as per usual On 31 Jan 2008, at 20:01, Orin wrote: Hi all, Has anyone played this game and had any luck with the map? I find it a bit confusing, and was just wondering if anyone had tried it out. The game is set in the 1920's, and this orginazation known as The Group wants you to go out and kill all types of creatures, I don't know how the storyline goes but I will say that it does sound complex. You can find the game at: http://www.cthulhunation.co.uk/ Hopefully a few of you can try it out and let me know if it's playable. I have already tried it, and as I said found it quite confusing, but if I do indeed learn how to play this I'm gonna continue doing it, it looks huge. It's set in a horror setting. Enjoy. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
