Hey guys,
I just saw a couple videos where someone created some crazy awesome
text-retro games, including a space shooter and Tetris clone, in the
Windows console. This is great for players with vision, but it's pain in
the ASCII for screen reader users! This is because screen readers spew out
every single character that gets output to the screen, as I'm sure some of
you know (and I recently learned the hard way, lol).
So I was wondering:
1. If there a way to control when screen readers speak output? I know
there's a DLL for NVDA, which is awesome, but I'd be calling its stop
function constantly and even then it probably wouldn't sound right.
2. If I wanted to port my game or TUI app to Linux, is there a way to
check if Orca is running? What about controlling what it speaks?
3. And I have a feeling those first two are gonna be a resounding "there
is no way", so let me ask you this: how do developers of other text-based
games pull it off? There must be a way to make terminal software
accessible to both visual and screen reader users... I just haven't found
it yet.
PS: An unofficial #4 (and you may not know the answer): I tried to create
an account on audiogames.net, so I could ask this on their forum, but twice
(with 2 different email addresses) it failed to send the confirmation
email. Anyone know of someone I can get with to fix that?
Thanks! :)
