[BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Wed Sep 23 02:03:11 UTC 2020


For some time now, Microsoft has used narrator to provide voice to xbox
systems.  How good the interface is with xbox games I can't say since I
don't have an xbox system here to try it out.

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Dennis Miller via BlindTlk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:10:07
> From: Dennis Miller via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Dennis Miller <dennismiller at cableone.net>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?
>
> Hey Guys:
>
>
>
> A sighted colleague asked me today if the Xbox videogame system was
> accessible to blind people.  I had never really thought about it but assumed
> it probably wasn't.  He thought perhaps Microsoft used Cortana to voice the
> menus since the Cortana voice was first used in a videogame.  Now I'm
> curious.  Is Xbox or Playstation accessible to a totally blind person?
>
> Dennis
>
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