Hi there!
I am creating a collection of fully blind accessible games, and your game is listed under the "blind support tag". The word "blind" means different things to different people, and within that wide spectrum their are various levels of expertise with visual UI's. but as a fully blind gamer, I am wondering what features this game provides for those who can not see the screen at all. Do you have "screen reader" or "text to speech" support? Is your game fully playable with a keyboard or controller, rather than having to point the mouse at buttons on the interface? If the answer to those questions is no, it would still be great to know what options are provided for those with less severe visual impairments, so that I might make them aware of your game's usability for them. Thank you for any information you can provide, it's very much appreciated! :)
Hi, and thanks for your question. It’s lovely of you to create such a collection, and I would be happy if my game was included!
Robot Daycare supports text-to-speech (activated by pressing “v”) and is fully playable with a keyboard or controller. You can get through the entire game by advancing dialogue with the space bar and picking choices with the enter key.
However, there is one part (the text input where you can decide the robot’s name) that might not be very user-friendly from a blind person’s perspective. At the very least, the characters will repeat the name you entered so you can make sure it is correct. Still, I’ll see if I can improve that!
I will also double check if the achievements screen is read out loud by the screen reader, as I have unfortunately neglected to test that so far.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
Sorry for the late response, it seems like you are really on top of things! Seeing such responsiveness from a dev about accessibility is very nice.
You've already mentioned a couple of things that are worth looking into, but another one is to make sure that their are no visual only puzzles. I.E you can't finish it if you can't see it.
Aside from that though, it seems like you already have your head and heart in the right place on this matter, so thanks for being a good example to others! :)