No, I am not referring to the sim itself as that would require an absolute coding genius familiar with accessible tech, but all of the items within the player build arena.
Honestly, GLB is really close to this, and here are the few things you would need to change:
- Training Page - instead of a pop-up displaying % trained, just have it read:
Attribute Name --- Pts --- % training. The iPhone app already does it along with scripts like the VPB.
- Java pop-ups in general - java and flash have historically been unaccessible, and I do not expect you all to change any of the other various pop-ups. But if you think of alternatives, great.
- VA, SA, etc... - Right now these areas are not accessible unless you just happen to remember the exact location of them all. What a screen reader reads is "png +" and "png -" and completely skips over the png containing the text. I remember back in the early seasons before the heavy use of java, these were accessible as you actually had the text in there. Bring this back.
- Headings - Simple html coding here. You have bars visually breaking up the page, just use the heading code also to start and end heading sections.
Things you all do good with regards to accessibility:
- AI - I have not delved into this area in quite some time, but I will assume that casual settings still are the old school simple array of drop downs and sliders and such. These for the most part are fine. Same goes with player tactics, no issues here.
- Forums - No issues. I been around much much much uglier forums, so keep up the good work.
I know bort has an old Mac siting around but it anyone else has OS X, 10.6 or 10.7 being optimal, you can check out what I am referring to by hitting Cmd + F5. Thing activates VoiceOver. Stick to using Safari if you do this as FF does nothing. For Windows based systems, I have used a variety of screen readers, and the above suggestions would be good for any screen reader.
Honestly, GLB is really close to this, and here are the few things you would need to change:
- Training Page - instead of a pop-up displaying % trained, just have it read:
Attribute Name --- Pts --- % training. The iPhone app already does it along with scripts like the VPB.
- Java pop-ups in general - java and flash have historically been unaccessible, and I do not expect you all to change any of the other various pop-ups. But if you think of alternatives, great.
- VA, SA, etc... - Right now these areas are not accessible unless you just happen to remember the exact location of them all. What a screen reader reads is "png +" and "png -" and completely skips over the png containing the text. I remember back in the early seasons before the heavy use of java, these were accessible as you actually had the text in there. Bring this back.
- Headings - Simple html coding here. You have bars visually breaking up the page, just use the heading code also to start and end heading sections.
Things you all do good with regards to accessibility:
- AI - I have not delved into this area in quite some time, but I will assume that casual settings still are the old school simple array of drop downs and sliders and such. These for the most part are fine. Same goes with player tactics, no issues here.
- Forums - No issues. I been around much much much uglier forums, so keep up the good work.
I know bort has an old Mac siting around but it anyone else has OS X, 10.6 or 10.7 being optimal, you can check out what I am referring to by hitting Cmd + F5. Thing activates VoiceOver. Stick to using Safari if you do this as FF does nothing. For Windows based systems, I have used a variety of screen readers, and the above suggestions would be good for any screen reader.
