Hi Robin, maybe the Moxi word game developers would like to take a stab at this?
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:39:29 PM UTC-5, Robin Christopherson wrote: > Dear listers > Does anyone know of an accessible iOS crossword game. By this I’m afraid I > don’t just mean one where you need to roam around the grid with your finger > to ascertain where the blanks and clues are etc, but rather one that I > suspect is specifically designed for blind users. I’ll explain – I would > like a game that allows you to browse up and down the list of clues > (perhaps in two columns – one for down clues and one for across) and each > time you hear something like “13 down. Type of medieval dagger commonly > used in Scotland. 4 letters. Blank, blank, blank, blank” All these elements > are spoken thus giving you all the info you need to proceed. When you > already have some of the letters it would say the same first part of the > phrase but the last part would now be “Blank, I, blank, K” or similar. You > never need to bother with the grid as you are only ever working with the > clues. > If you want to enter a guess you can click on that clue and you get a text > box that will accept 4 letters, or perhaps 4 separate boxes with any > letters already present filled in in the relevant places. > Perhaps when you complete a clue it would say “13 down. Filled in. Type of > medieval dagger commonly used in Scotland. 4 letters. Dirk.” (i.e. would > indicate that it had a word filled in and it would also no longer separate > the letters but rather speak out the filled in word so it sounds like a > word and not individual letters). > When the entire crossword is completed you would get an alert to say that > you’ve got them all correct. > Anything like this already exist? I’m not interested in the more > conventional approach even if it is accessible I’m afraid. My gaming time > is limited and any roaming – even on the scale of Wordundrum – would be too > time consuming I’m afraid. If such a game doesn’t exist it would be great > if a coder took it on. > Thanks, Robin. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
