Who’s blind now!? Hehehe.

I personally don’t, because I still play mainstream games and have been lucky with accessibility improvements to a lot of the ones I’m interested in. The Last of Us parts I and II are incredibly accessible, for example.

Then again… I think A Hero’s Call is relatively well regarded, as something that’s also on Steam.

You could check out audiogames.net to get a broader selection, but be mindful that a lot of the discussions get quite unsavory. I don’t frequent it.

Think of it as an indie album that went mainstream. The people in the scene weren’t exactly mesmerized, but it’s still a big deal.

It’s awesome that you enjoyed it that much!

The gameplay mechanics and basic concepts are very well established in the audiogame space, so this game was by no means revolutionary within the blind community.

What’s really cool about it is that it’s approachable for sighted players, such as yourself, and the voice acting is pretty good indeed.

I also really like that the main character is a strong disabled female lead. A lot of things just happen to her, but she still *does * a lot.

I’m playing Dishonored these days. It was highly recommended after I said I was loving Prey.

Is it OK if I’m not loving it? Hahaha.

The no kill limitation was really shoe-horned in there, so I think I’ll only really have fun on the second playthrough. Shame.

Prey limits you quite a bit for the good ending, but it’s still complex, broad and fun.

After loving Prey, I’m now playing Dishonored. So far so good, I like how quickly I was able to get zooming and target highlighting in lore appropriate ways!

So you just… didn’t see it? Ba-dum-tss. Hehe.

I might cross post there later.

Hahaha. I find that kinda thing incredibly fun. I once had to fix my soft-bricked Android phone in a hotel in a foreign country with no other connected devices around. That’ll teach me to run nightly builds!

That sounds awesome!

I know they do, the app accessibility support is just unacceptably bad. Orca is also known for crashing - not that hardcore Linux users aren’t used to losing their interface all of a sudden, hehe.

“Steam play?” This sounds like something I should know about. And what would you otherwise, generally, say is a good distro? One that plays well with KDE, if I’m reading the room correctly.

Oh, I really should have mentioned I’ve used Linux a fair bit, including desktop. Just not in a few years and never for gaming.

Is ray tracing hit or miss or would it be best to forget about it?

Good to know. Yeah, I wouldn’t even entertain this idea if I needed a screen reader full time.

Ubuntu is actually particularly terrible: Snap packages (general controversy aside) theme the cursor, so my mouse kinda disappears into them. It’s nice to know people are making alternative magnifiers though - that one doesn’t work for me because I need full screen zoom, but it may be handy for others.

Thanks for reminding me of ProtonDB, that’ll be a good tool to evaluate this possible move.

As an r/blind mod and RBlind.com adminI am, in fact, aware of it. Hehehe.

Seriously though, the blind community Linux desktop install base is small and virtually nonexistent for gaming, and I have very simple accessibility requirements, so I figured I’d get better feedback here.

It’s great to know there’s some awareness of the instance around the broader Fediverse!

I have many questions. I won’t ask them and I don’t want the answers, but I have many questions.

I’d also add that performance needs to be balanced with readability and engineering hours, and considered in context.

I have plenty of code that would be asymptotically catastrophic, but only runs once a day on off hours over a physically limited dataset.

Your post is a very good contribution to the realization that we’re supposed to use data and rules to inform our decisions, not to stop us from thinking.

Yup, I’m paying for Nebula which is creator-owned. It doesn’t do everything YouTube does, but it’s a cool direction for the medium to go into - at least to try.

I use a keeb.io Levinson 40% ortho split at home and a Plaid 40% ortho at work. I find that the split is really important for my wrists, but I can tolerate the Plaid once or twice a week. It’s also easier to carry around.

They both have black blank DSA keycaps to make them even harder to use for other people.

I use a Levinson! It’s awesome.

Just chiming in to say that any ISO keyboard can be whatever flavor of ISO you pick, based on your selection in the OS. You may want keycaps to match, but that’s really it, as far as hardware goes.