[BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?

[Dennis Miller]

Interesting thought.  I'm not sure how that would work exactly and it certainly wouldn't be ideal but it's something I hadn't considered before.


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How about utilizing Aira to help with menus for gaming devices, just a thought.

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> On Sep 23, 2020, at 3:14 PM, haley thurston via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> No I don’t think it is accessible to people who are totally blind. There may be some people who are not totally blind who can use that like partial blindness, but I don’t think it’s accessible to a totally blind user
> 
> Haley Thurston
> 
>> On Sep 22, 2020, at 9:12 PM, Dennis Miller via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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