[blind-chess] Re: Fwd: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch

  • From: "stan lovell" <stan.lovell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:01:40 -0000

Anna,
would you have any objection if I passed your email containing information about this breakthrough to colleagues in the UK Braille chess association? 

Stan Lovell

Stan Lovell
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Scarborough
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Woody Anna Dresner" <wadresner@xxxxxxx> 
To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:12 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Fwd: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch 




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Greetings All,
Today Apple approved and released the accessible version of Marcel Nijman's Chess-wise Apps! As Scott Howell and I mentioned last week, Marcel has been working to make his Chess App VoiceOver accessible. In addition, Marcel modified three of his other game apps to make them VO accessible. Those Apps are: Checker-wise, Draughts-wise and Xiangqi-wise. These apps are all now available worldwide in the App Store and in the following languages: English, Spanish, Russian, German and Dutch. Marcel plans to add Polish in the next update.
Each of these four Apps is a universal App, which means they will run correctly on the iPhone, iTouch and iPad. Also, each App has two versions: A Free and a Pro version. The differences between the Free and Pro versions are clearly defined in the "Description" section of each App's page in the App Store. Personally, I would urge you to consider purchasing the Pro version of any of these Apps in which you are interested. The price is only US $2.99 for the Chess and Checker Apps, and only US $1.99 for the Draughts and Xiangqi Apps. I believe Marcel is the kind of developer who deserves our support one hundred percent.
I've not tried the 3 other games yet, but I can tell you the Chessboard and Chess pieces are now recognized and read aloud by VO. You can navigate the board using a one-finger swipe, or you can just slide one finger around the board and VO will announce the coordinates and the name of a piece if one occupies that square. To make a move, use one finger to locate the piece you want to move, then double-tap. VO will announce "Selected." Now use one finger again to locate the destination square and double-tap again. Please note that this is considered a first version of this game in it's accessible form. While Marcel has made the heart of the App accessible, it is a very feature-rich App which will require additional coding to make it fully accessible. Marcel has asked that those of us who use the Apps provide feedback to him so he can continue to refine and update the accessibility features. 

Here is a link to Marcel's App Gallery in the US iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/marcel-nijman/id337888122

Here is a link to Chess-wise Pro in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-pro/id351303981?mt=8

Here is a link to Chess-wise FREE in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-free/id367318028?mt=8
Personally, I'd like to thank everybody on this list who provided feedback for Marcel, and I'd especially like to thank Scott Howell and Geoff Waaler who took the initiative to also contact Marcel directly and who corresponded regularly with him over the past 12 days. 

Cheers,
Bryan

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