[BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?

Thu Sep 24 13:24:16 UTC 2020

Really, the most accessible gaming system that will exist for a while is
the Windows computer. This machine has support for keyboards, mice, and
even game controllers out of the box, and not just one specific controller
either. It has many games especially made for the blind, as well as the
amazing ability to recognize text on screen, making most fighting games,
and many choose your own adventure or text-based video games, accessible.
And, because it's a general purpose computer, it has support for other
functions, like listening to music, browsing the web, and reading email.
One last thing, your screen reader reads *all* of it. Not just mostly the
chat functions, and not just in the US, either, like the pathetic PS4. And
I'd love to see someone play the new remake of Final Fantasy 7 with AIRA.
That'd take a huge amount of time.
Devin Prater
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:41 PM Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk <
blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> muds with sound packs are another approach.  Only an accessible
> multimedia-equipped computer and a correct telnet connection are needed
> for those.  Alteraeon and legends of kallisti are two possibilities I
> can think of now.
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020, Ryan Mann wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:10:03
> > From: Ryan Mann <rmann0581 at gmail.com>
> > To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> > Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?
> >
> > If I have to use a service like AIRA to play a game, then that?s not
> accessibility.  I am glad that there are audio games coming out for Alexa
> devices.  I think if I want to play games, I will just use Alexa and save
> money on an Xbox and AIRA.
> > Just my opinion
> >
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> > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 7:38:19 PM
> > To: Dennis Miller via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> > Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?
> >
> > Be my eyes will cost less.
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Dennis Miller via BlindTlk wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:46:47
> > > 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: Re: [BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: BlindTlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> CHELA Robles via BlindTlk
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:19 PM
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> > > Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Accessible Video Game Systems?
> > >
> > > How about utilizing Aira to help with menus for gaming devices, just a
> thought.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > 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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