Love the polish on this game. In the web version, My ORCA screen reader only reads buttons and not text for some reason. But I had fun discovering instruments with my controller wiggling the thumbsticks around. Took me a while before I understood what I was doing but eventually I got the gist. Great submission! Thanks for adding controller support, that always makes my day.
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Thanks for the report on ORCA—that’s very interesting. I tried some new things with the UI this time, so there are likely some things to refine. Lots of dialogs moving focus and live regions compared to previous entries. Thankfully I now have a spare Linux machine, which I’ve been meaning to use to learn more about ORCA anyway. Should be a fun thing to troubleshoot?
I am stuck on Orca 46 because I'm on linux Mint, which is pinned to Ubuntu 24.04. And so I am rather behind. I think since 47 ORCA's behavior has changed as it reads here (I found out today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/main/README-APPLICATION-DEVELOPERS.md...
I've been waiting for ages for Mint to get on with it, and now posted on the mint forums asking when they will move forwards. Pushback comments keep saying that the current Mint version is stable, but it really isn't if you are a screen reader user. Hopefully some pressure will help. Anyway, this is to say, I wouldn't support for versions lower than 47 and test with the latest. It might work just fine there.
By the way, how can we all give this more pressure? I’m not familiar with how issues are typically reported for Mint. Is there an open issue on GitHub to update these dependencies that I can upvote? I’ll need to try it for myself on the other machine, but I possibly might have some additional feedback to add.