See the response the Solara developer sent me; it is pretty cool how receptive these guys are to adding in accessibility improvements!
Denny Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Esper Labs Support <[email protected]> > Date: August 16, 2013, 4:31:25 PM CDT > To: Denny Gmail <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Accessibility suggestions > > Hi Denny, > > I'm glad you're enjoying the game, and thanks for the feedback! > > Some brief thoughts on your suggestions: > 1. I can see how this would be tricky - we'll put this on the list as > something to try to improve in the future, though I can't guarantee any > specific timeframe. > 2-3. I'm actually just finishing implementing a VoiceOver-specific menu for > managing the shops in your castle. This menu lets you list all of your > existing structures, rush construction of ones that are building, destroy > existing shops, and move them around the castle. It also shows summary stats > about how many empty units are available. I'm hoping this will solve most of > the VoiceOver related castle management issues, though it will be interesting > to hear the feedback once it's released. Keep an eye out for our next update > in the next few weeks. > > Sincerely, > Eric > > On Aug 16, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Denny Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have enjoyed playing this game so far as a blind user. Also I want to say >> I have enjoyed how willing you have been to work out the accessibility >> issues so far. >> >> Here are some suggestions to help us blind people even more: >> >> 1. In the arena give filter options so we don't have to try and scroll >> through the entire list of 100 castles to find one to battle. I have found >> this a very big disadvantage to playing the game, since it allows those able >> to navigate the arena easier the ability to simply out-navigate a blind user >> and blow past them in ratings. A good example of this was my experience >> this morning. I was up against two other individuals, all of us starting at >> around the same rating, and the two of them simply blew ahead of me, even >> though I was battling castles as fast as possible. If you could sort by >> castles not yet battled, or have a view that filters them out, that would be >> great. Even better would be the ability to have more sort and filter >> options, say all castles under this level, ones without a huntress, etc. >> >> 2. Give us an idea of what area we have left to build in the castle. If >> there was a bit of text saying that you have only space for this size of >> piece at a max to build, then that might give us options to look at when >> building. This one isn't as big of a deal, since we can always just start >> at the biggest we want to build, and work down to the smaller ones, placing >> the biggest we can actually build when we get to it. >> >> 3. Give us the ability to navigate the shops we currently have in the >> castle. I have had several times I truely wished to rush construction but, >> after the first dialog goes away, just after you choose to build the shop, I >> can not get the option to rush construction again. I would hope that, if >> you were able to find and click on the shop, that rush construction would >> come up again. This would also give us the options to get rid of shops that >> do not give much money, in comparison to new shops, since I have found the >> destroy button on accident several times now. I do not think you need to >> do anything fancy like navigating the actual castle structure. If you can >> just list the shops currently in the castle, as well as the castle levels >> themselves, then I think that would be enough. It would at least give us >> options to find the shops, which we don't have currently. >> >> Thanks again for this game. I have been buying esper quite a lot, to >> support you guys and all the work you ahve done for us blind users! My >> castle is Dragon Den. >> >> Denny[Required] Please describe the problem that you are seeing... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Support Information - Do Not Delete >> Client Version 1.40 >> Definitions Cache Version 1003 >> Device Identifier 4efd0fe76bb4ce524a1cd4eaab3e8c26 >> Device Version Name iPhone5,1 >> Facebook Identifier 1124918503 >> GameCenter Identifier G:294275559 >> iCloud Token 00235e25026f3eb4940b6cde912054b09e538203 >> Language en >> Login Token 00235e25026f3eb4940b6cde912054b09e538203 >> Operating System iPhone OS 6.1.4 >> Timestamp 2013-08-16 12:22:33 +0000 >> Tower Name Dragon's Den >> Vendor Device Identifier D1E33210-8BC1-4DCD-922B-34F6CF837F05 >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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