[Flightgear-devel] A Question

[Haylie G. <hay...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have been a blind flight simmer for many years, and in fact, you can find
my YouTube channel here,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1wIIZk5MPJdtFdRUBl5TQ

With It's Your Plane being dead, and there seeming to be a pretty big blind
flight sim community, I am wondering if Flight Gear could be made to be
accessible for the blind.  You can find other comments on this topic here,
http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=22035
<http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=22035&p=4> &p=4

As you can see with my YouTube videos, I am using It's Your Plane, which I
stated above is dead.  You will see if you watch any of my videos that I am
able to run through all the checklists as well as take off, land and taxi,
although I wish I could manually taxi the aircraft, and there are many other
limitations with IYP such as it was supposed to be used only by voice.  I
actually have a pretty extensive flight control system and have on and off
have been able to use it with IYP.  From the posts that I have also linked
to , there is going to have to be work done with the interface of Flight
Gear itself to make it screen reader friendly, but that would be a good step
in the right direction.  I would be glad to help out in any way I can if you
do work on making Flight Gear accessible.  Flight Gear sound like a great
flight sim, and I would like to be able to use it to continue making YouTube
videos if it is made accessible, and I know a lot of other blind flight
simmers would be greatful as well.

Sincerely,

Haylie