[projectaon] Re: A question about your gamebooks from a blind player
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Niklasrittinghaus@xxxxxxxxx, projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:12:11 +0100
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From: Niklas Rittinghaus
Date: 23:57:56 on Saturday, August 2, 2014
Subject: A question about your gamebooks from a blind player
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Hello, i am enjoying gamebooks very much. Now my question: Can the
grafic novels and other books you provide made accessible to blind users
as well, for example by adding text to the grafics, labeling Images and
such? And can the Lord and sorcerers series be made accessible as well?
I would be glad to enjoy your complete gamebook collection.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
Niklas Rittinghaus
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Hi Niklas
Thanks for your interest in Project Aon. It's always encouraging to hear
from other Lone Wolf fans from around the world.
Regarding accessibility, I'm not wholly sure what more can be done, to
be honest. Wherever possible in the PDFs, the graphics-text has been
replaced by actual type. This both improves the accessibility and also
improves the images, since text-as-graphics often looks stretched and
messy. This is the case for The Magnamund Companion pdf.
We didn't replace the text for the graphics used in the graphic novel
The Skull of Agarash, and I'm not sure how accessibility could be
improved for that document, short of someone going to the trouble of
producing a script for each page (describing who is speaking, what they
are saying, and what is happening).
With the Combat Heroes (Black Baron & White Warlord; Emerald Enchanter &
Scarlet Sorcerer) we have replaced all of the text with actual type; the
graphics are just images of what the player can see. So again, unless
someone creates descriptions of each of the 'views', there's no easy way
of making them accessible to the visually impaired.
We are aware of blind users and we have worked hard to make the books as
accessible as we can, replacing text wherever possible. One of our
contributors was (maybe still is?) an admin at
<http://www.audiogames.net/> which is a resource designed specifically
for blind or visually-impaired gamebook fans.
Sorry I can't be more helpful about this, but I hope I've explained the
complexity involved in attempting to describe these books via Alt-text.
The Lone Wolf, Grey Star, and Freeway Warrior books, however, will
always be presented as html/text and will therefore be accessible to
screen reader software.
For Sommerlund and the Kai!
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Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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