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milk+ visual1 year ago(+1)

Hello!

Soundless comes with both a self-voicing feature and a text-to-clipboard feature, both of which can be accessed by hotkeys that the player is informed about with a voiced line when they first open the game. Self-voicing uses the operating system's text-to-speech settings to read the text out loud, while text-to-clipboard is provided for those who would rather feed the text into a screen reader of their choice.

Players are capable of navigating the interface with both the keyboard and a gamepad. Additionally, we provide the option to activate image descriptions. As for those with less severe visual impairments, we provide Atkinson Hyperlegible as an alternative font. The font is also rather large.

The only issue we have is that Soundless is currently not capable of having text-to-speech and auto-read mode on at the same time, but this will be corrected in the next patch.

We hope this helps!

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superfreq1 year ago

That's great! It seems like you guys are really on the ball when it comes to accessibility.  Most Renpy games with accessibility don't include the text to clipboard option for instance , and that can be very useful if you want a fully customized voice.

You covered pretty much everything already, but now I'm just wondering if you have text for visual indicators, such as those used to show status on controls.

Thanks for the response!

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milk+ visual1 year ago(+1)

Soundless is a simple and choiceless visual novel, so for the most part visual indicators are limited to button colors changing when they're selected. These buttons are set up with alternate text that tells you if the button has been selected or not.

The sole visual indicator that lacks alternative text is the click-to-continue indicator. Fully blind players have to rely on an obvious lack of text being read aloud to figure out that it's okay to advance.

The upcoming ability to have auto-forward mode and text-to-speech mode on at the same time will remove the indicator because of the auto-advancement. However, we would like to ask you if it would be even more helpful for there to be alternative text for the click-to-continue indicator regardless, especially since some people prefer to have full control over their text advancement speed. We can bring it up on the Ren'Py GitHub page and workshop a way to implement it with other developers.

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superfreq1 year ago

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to this.  I think the indicator would only be needed if you didnt' have a tutorial and/or help guide/menu showing the keyboard commands and mentioning that you need to hit space to continue or what ever it is. Being told every time isn't really necessary for most people as long as they are told up front and can look it up if they come back to the game and have forgotten.

One more thing to look out for that I missed before is visual puzzles. If you have a puzzle that can only be solved visually, that can be a big problem. But it seems like you guys are really on top of things already! :)
Thank you for your solid work on this! You are a good example to others.

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