[Ohio-Talk] Computer Game

[Maggie Stringer]

For those that play computer games, passing this along.

Now you can Play the Popular Game Wordle with a Screen Reader

You may have seen friends posting their daily results from Wordle, the hot
new word game craze. Now, there's an easy way to play the game with a
screen reader.

What is Wordle?
Wordle is a simple word game based on concepts from Mastermind, where you
must guess a five-letter word using deduction. It's also similar to the
game show Lingo, aired in the U.S. on Game Show Network over a decade ago.

You have up to six guesses to determine today's word. Yes, I said
“today's”, as in there is only one puzzle per day. After each guess, you
are told which letters are in the word in the correct place, or which
letters are in the word but in the wrong place. But until now, the only way
to gather this info while using a screen reader involved some advanced
techniques, since the results of each guess are represented by colors.

Accessible Wordle
Dominic Mazzoni has generously given us a bit of his free time to solve
this problem for us, in the form of a simple free bookmarklet which can be
run in most browsers. It modifies the output of the game so that the colors
for each letter are represented by "correct", "present", or "absent".
Keyboard entry is also enabled for the game, and previous guesses can be
reviewed. The instructions are not difficult, but do take a couple of
steps, so select the link above to learn how to install the code.

What about those results?
You may have noticed lots of posts on Twitter with various squares
indicating the results. IN case you're curious, green squares indicate a
letter is correct, yellow squares mean the letter is in the word but in the
wrong spot, and white squares refer to letters not in the word at all. The
results are displayed with one guess on each line.

We hope you enjoy the latest game craze. Good luck!


Maggie Stringer
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