Hello friends, I have also tried with chess.com but it is not user
friendly for screen reader like NVDA and Jaws softwares. Hence, as of
now, it is not possible to do such things over there. Their help desk
members also show unwillingness very often, for the accessibility,
whenever contacted.
On 11/16/18, Mark R Hague(list) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My experience of chess.com is that the teaching videos (diamond membership)
on the site are excellent and so are the chess forums. However playing games
or trying to use the tactics trainer is a non starter for a blind person.
Regards,
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JT" <hazelnutt2001@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:19 PM
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: just created an account on chess.com, so looking
for accessibility advice for playing
If anybody comes up with anything, please post it to the List so we all can
hear it. I've explored a bit on chess.com, and I find it to be most
unfriendly to screenreaders. Seems to me I recall some conversation a while
back that somebody else had tried it, found it inaccessible, approached the
site manager person, and was told, essentially, to "buzz off; they weren't
going to do anything about it." Please, don't anybody go charging off at the
site manager, at least, not until we can confirm that I'm remembering
correctly. Does anybody out there remember any such communication?
Jim T
-----Original Message-----
From: usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:usbca_chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Rosenkoetter
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:29 AM
To: usbca_chess <usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [usbca_chess] just created an account on chess.com, so looking for
accessibility advice for playing
Hi, everyone.
I just created an account on chess.com. So, I'm looking for any advice you
all may have on navigating the environment for playing live games.
e.g. How do I choose/select time controls? How do I get the moves to show
for me so JAWS can read them? How do I find out my initial rating?
Any tips/advice you all can give will be very helpful.
All the best in chess,
David
