[Tuxmath-devel] Accessibility

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

What do people think about accessibility issues?

I'm thinking that perhaps the game could speak the following things,
so that visually disabled people could play:

  1. speak the title menu options (eg, say "PRESS RETURN TO PLAY" out loud
     when the title appears, and then "PRESS RETURN TO [whatever]" when the
     arrow keys are used)

  2. speak the equations when they first appear on the screen (tweaking the
     timing of the game may be necessary to make it easier to play when it's
     talking)

  3. speak the numbers the player types (ZERO, ONE, TWO, etc.) as they
     type them.  Perhaps speak the total answer (eg, "TWELVE") when they
     hit RETURN.  (And maybe say "CLEAR" when they hit BACKSPACE)

  4. replace some of the sound effects (lasers, explosions, etc.) with
     spoken words describing what's going on ("CORRECT!" or "WRONG!" and
     "CITY 2 DESTROYED")  [ in that case, perhaps telling which column the
     comet is falling down when the equation is spoken would be useful, too ]


How portable is festival between OSes?  How integratable to SDL is it?
(Should it jump in as a full replacement for SDL_mixer; eg, no SFX music
and just speech?  Or can they live happily together?  Or should we just
have WAV files of people saying numbers and words?)


Commets?

Thanks!

-bill!