Glenn1212
Greenhorn
Hello to all,
My name is Darrell Bowles, and I am a totally blind VIdeo gamer. My Girl Friend is visually impaired and both of us play stardew Valley. The developer has done a great job with chracter storylines, and concepts, but there are somee things for me that make it particularly impossible for me to play the game.
1. There is no screen reader support. A screen reader is a program that converts the visuals on a computer screen to synthesized speech. I understand that this may be next to impossible for the developer to do on a console, but I know that lots of mods exist on the PC game. For other games such as harthstone, mods have been made to allow screen reader access to it. WHen I'm reading text whether it is from the menus outside the game, my inventory, letters from the mail, or what the villagers are saying, I am unable to read it.
2. Audio Cues for moving around, knowing when you ahve fround a desired object such as a tree, or the river, and the mini game for fishing. It is not possible for me to locate places or objects without audiocues. ALso the fact that the game is time based makes it that much harder.
3. knowing what is in your inventory is important for a multitude of reasons, and this is not possible either. My self, my girl friend and a dear friend of ours play this game on Sundays. They actually have to gude me around to places for me to do things like fishing, which I'm terrible at, not because I don't understand the concept, but because as a totally blind player, I have no way of knowing where the bar is at any given time, except when the controler vibrates to tell me that it is lined up.
If there is anyone who would be intrested in modding the PC version for screen reader accessibility, please reach out.
My name is Darrell Bowles, and I am a totally blind VIdeo gamer. My Girl Friend is visually impaired and both of us play stardew Valley. The developer has done a great job with chracter storylines, and concepts, but there are somee things for me that make it particularly impossible for me to play the game.
1. There is no screen reader support. A screen reader is a program that converts the visuals on a computer screen to synthesized speech. I understand that this may be next to impossible for the developer to do on a console, but I know that lots of mods exist on the PC game. For other games such as harthstone, mods have been made to allow screen reader access to it. WHen I'm reading text whether it is from the menus outside the game, my inventory, letters from the mail, or what the villagers are saying, I am unable to read it.
2. Audio Cues for moving around, knowing when you ahve fround a desired object such as a tree, or the river, and the mini game for fishing. It is not possible for me to locate places or objects without audiocues. ALso the fact that the game is time based makes it that much harder.
3. knowing what is in your inventory is important for a multitude of reasons, and this is not possible either. My self, my girl friend and a dear friend of ours play this game on Sundays. They actually have to gude me around to places for me to do things like fishing, which I'm terrible at, not because I don't understand the concept, but because as a totally blind player, I have no way of knowing where the bar is at any given time, except when the controler vibrates to tell me that it is lined up.
If there is anyone who would be intrested in modding the PC version for screen reader accessibility, please reach out.
