Conquer Club

I was just reading GoranZ's thread complaining about the colors of numbers, and it got me thinking...

CC makes absolutely no provision for blind players. At present, they basically just have to guess how many armies they have and make their moves based on their best guesses, or trouble a friend to read out the numbers to them every single time they take a turn.

This is obviously ridiculous.

There are two ways this could be resolved:

1) audio numbers. Numbers are read out loud. I imagine as a default at first we could just have male/female North American audio, but as members of the CC community start to contribute their own we could add a whole range of accents, languages and even some celebrity voices if we have any good impressionists on here.

2) braille numbers. Instead of '1, 2, 3' etc., numbers are written in braille.

i'm pretty sure this has been suggested before and lack had begun coding on it, then came the sale... wonder if any of the subsequent owners took up the fight?!!! and for those of you that are thinking this is a joke, it isn't... what a great idea, i'm glad someone brought it back up!!-Jésus noir

I know a guy on CC who is blind and has a trained dog that barks out the amount of armies; but it's a bit difficult for his dog to play escalating.

mrswdk wrote:I was just reading GoranZ's thread complaining about the colors of numbers, and it got me thinking...

CC makes absolutely no provision for blind players. At present, they basically just have to guess how many armies they have and make their moves based on their best guesses, or trouble a friend to read out the numbers to them every single time they take a turn.

This is obviously ridiculous.

There are two ways this could be resolved:

1) audio numbers. Numbers are read out loud. I imagine as a default at first we could just have male/female North American audio, but as members of the CC community start to contribute their own we could add a whole range of accents, languages and even some celebrity voices if we have any good impressionists on here.

2) braille numbers. Instead of '1, 2, 3' etc., numbers are written in braille.

Surely "as well as" rather than "instead of"....all for being inclusive, but if the numbers were only in braille, that would limit the usability somewhat.

Would the audio option include reading out territories, bonuses, the log, and the spoils? How would one get to understand a new map with an objective?

Well yeah, braille would be an option just like the current toggle option to add letters to the front of your troop numbers.

clangfield wrote:

mrswdk wrote:Well yeah, braille would be an option just like the current toggle option to add letters to the front of your troop numbers.

Surely "as well as" rather than "instead of"....all for being inclusive, but if the numbers were only in braille, that would limit the usability somewhat.

Would the audio option include reading out territories, bonuses, the log, and the spoils? How would one get to understand a new map with an objective?

you both obviously did not watch the video. it would exist on the site and you or i would not see it... it would exist on every page and it would not change the experience/site for us. watch the video i posted...




the black jesus has spoken...-Jésus noir

I did watch the video but I forgot about that :3

Has no one seen this?

notyou2 wrote:Has no one seen this?

this place is kind of like the bathroom wall in middle school... nobody ever really sees it... or that bad graffiti under the overpass... nobody every really sees it... it just makes us all feel better to come in here and espouse...-Jésus noir