Talon @talon@dragonscave.space

#AudioMo let's play Cycle Path, a game in which you're on a bike and need to avoid other cars, collect cash and jump ramps, all without seeing the screen! Game by @talon with sound design by yours truly. https://piotrs.site/audio/audiomo21/19-Cyclepath.mp3 #audio #noxp

For #AudioMo 6, I'd like to introduce you to a rather unique exploration game meets musical instrument, Sound Strider! This should really appeal to all you musicians out there.
This one ended up being longer so you'll probably want to just listen to it from the link below. Audio Description: Talking about the game, walking through a forest, a beach, some industrial zones, a city while pretending I know how to play the keyboard.
https://piotrs.site/audio/audiomo21/06-Sound-Strider.mp3 #audio #noxp

Here’s what I’ve been working on over the last weekend with @talon's help. Have you wanted to code on a Mac, but hated it because VoiceOver doesn’t have a way to announce indentation levels? We made a thing to fix this, creatively called IndentBeeper! https://github.com/pitermach/IndentBeeper #noxp

Since #GAAD is around the corner and you guys were so awesome at spreading the love re: image descriptions, here's something else I started seeing more often that's a bit problematic for blind social media folks. Please don't use fancy fonts in your display names. On Apple platforms they'll get read out very painfully, and almost everywhere else you'll just get silence! Have a look at and listen to this video to see what I mean. #noxp

And that's just the blind/low vision stuff. THere's gonna be assistive touch for watches, support for 3rd party eye trackers on iPads, and a bunch more stuff I'm forgetting. It's really cool they're giving things like this the spotlight this way

And speaking of #GAAD, in a first Apple just put out the upcoming accessibility changes way ahead of WWDC. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/
The on-device image description feature is about to get even more useful, because you'll be able to on-demand request more details about an image, including detailed facial feature descriptions and position info for objects on a picture. It'll also detect if there's something displayed in a tabular format and let you review it like a table. #noxp

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

#introduction Hi hello! Trying this Mastodon thing for real this time. Name's Guillem, main field of study is #classical #piano performance. In my spare time I make very much not classical #music, program a few #games, complain about #accessibility, exercise my #language and #linguistics nerdyness, and nerdyness in general, and talk to strangers on the Internet. I also have periods of obsessive #reading and/or consuming video content. Actually i think my entire life is periods of obsessive something.
Aaaanyway, that's me! :)

I'm so happy to have assisted @talon in the making of this great 3d space invaders #AudioGame! It may or may not win the #NoVideoJam 2, but will for sure bring much fun (and frustration! Oh my goodness, so much frustration ...) to the judges.
I imagine it would be quite confusing for you sighted folks unless you are already familiar with audio games from somewhere else. But if you're at all curious, I still recommend you try it! If nothing else, for the delightful and funny voice acting (which some might even find familiar ... )!
https://talonthedragon.itch.io/evil-satellites
And after that, do check the other jam entries, as well! Like the one from @pitermach in the next boost!
#Gaming #VideoGames

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