Ameer Armaly wrote: > Hi all. My name is Ameer Armaly, and I am a blind programmer. I > recently came across a reference to Netrek from a friend who told me > that it would b e nice to make it playable by the blind through the > use of stario sound and speech. > So I started researching: at a glance, there seems to be no definitive > protocol reference. If someone could point me to one that would be > great; I could then write a whole new client with speech support. > Failing that, what would be the best client to modify for the windows > operating system? Preferably, it should use windows standard controls > wherever possible so that any changes I make are relatively clean as > opposed to having to rip out the whole UI. For example, I have seen > that some clients do not present the list of servers in an actual list > box; this would have to be modified for optimal accessibility. > Any advice you all could lend would be appreciated. If you were truly trying for an interface accessible to the blind - I would skip the GUI altogether. I don't see how this would work though. There's no way you could dodge 20 incoming torpedoes by sound alone. Cheers, mark P.S. My father is a completely blind software designer. -- Mark Mielke <mark at mielke.cc> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20080802/b18c1c96/attachment.htm