Accessibility in Fallen London

Fallen London
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[color=#46f2ca]We’ve worked with a number of visually-impaired beta testers during the development of Fallen London mobile, and we’re keen to make Fallen London (both mobile and browser) as accessible as possible.[/color]
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[color=#46f2ca]With that in mind, this is a thread for visually-impaired users to discuss the game, suggest accessibility improvements and connect for social acts.[/color]
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[color=#46f2ca]If you’re primarily looking to make friends, there’s also a general meeting-people thread here.[/color]

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[li]Greetings!
[li]I’m a blind player, and found this amazing game. I’d like to provide feedback on accessibility, mostly regarding graphic labelling and some way to indicate the colour borders of items.
[li]At your service,
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[li]Father Torque
[li]Neat citizen

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One of the things that could be changed, is the alt attribute of the icons. They include the path to the file, and makes a lot of noise :)
An example below
alt="//d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/owlsmall.png - Observation, intelligence, deduction."

Cheers,
Father Torque

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[quote=Father Torque]One of the things that could be changed, is the alt attribute of the icons. They include the path to the file, and makes a lot of noise :)
An example below
alt=&quot//d39jqyxiuv7ej3.cloudfront.net/icons/owlsmall.png - Observation, intelligence, deduction.&quot

Cheers,
Father Torque[/quote

I agree there’s a lot of noise. A question how do you equip or use an item with the app? Great game!
edited by Carman Mccauley on 5/24/2016

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how does one become a beta tester?

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I’ve been told by a sighted friend, that on every mission there are icons indicating the pre requisites. This information would be very useful, and it is not available to screen readers. maybe a way on how the tooltip is created, alt/title attribute for the icons, or plainly text description in the storylet.

Cheers

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Father Torque, I don’t know how viable this would be for you, but there is an extension to Fallen London that adds branch and storylet perquisites as plan text. Instructions are available here: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic183-echo-bazaar-user-script.aspx

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Very very nice addon. It is extremely useful! Thanks a lot for the tip.

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Incidentally, Father, I assume your name is a reference to the biker-priest from Lucasarts’ Full Throttle? Love that game!