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Blind Accessibility #3948

Jaseoffire posted onGitHub

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This feature request is to mainly add/improve screen reader support. Right now, the start screen is somewhat accessible. With a screen reader, I am able to see the buttons for creating a new project, opening a project, creating a new map, and creating a new tileset.

Describe the solution you'd like The idea is that through QT's own accessibility features, and perhaps through other screen reader support, we can create a mostly usable program for the visually impaired. This should have minimal impact on other features of the GUI.

Describe alternatives you've considered I've considered first just making an entire new setup, but TMX is far too used and valuable. Even building a fully featured TMX editor would be cumbersome. As far as alternatives to the idea above, it is possible, and might be necessary to add an internal voicing system to maintain cross-platform compatibility.


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posted by azurejoga 11 months ago

As a blind game developer, I would love to see this happen!

posted by mcb2003 3 months ago

I've marked this issue as "help wanted", because I have no experience at all with accessibility features and also do not know how a visual editor like Tiled could actually be made accessible for blind people. The existing accessibility of the start screen mentioned by @Jaseoffire is due to Qt's built-in accessibility features based on the standard widget hierarchy. Beyond that I expect nothing to work at the moment since the main feature of the app is the editable view on the map and all edit tools rely almost exclusively on mouse pointer input.

Note that help does not necessarily mean actual coding. This issue can also use help from people who can describe existing solutions to making such an editor accessible and refer to other applications that might already have implemented them.

posted by bjorn 3 months ago

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