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Grace King

• March 11, 2018 11:11

Hello,
I am a totally blind DND player who requires a digital solution to manage my character. I am now using a site which will be closing down due to Google's API shutting down at the end of the year.
Your character site seems really accessible except for the fact that when boxes pop up JAWS For Windows, NVDA, and Voice Over are all unable to interact with the popups. I was able to use the virtual mouse with JAWS to make the alert go away however, JAWS will not interact with the page again until the page is manually refreshed. I have tried to use the site with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Safari on my mobile phone.
I would really like to use your tools for Character Creation and management and would be happy to assist in any way I can to help make them work with a screen reader so that other people who are blind can be included to play DND.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Grace

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  BadEye

  • December 28, 2018 23:19

  Thanks for the feedback on this and I can confirm we will be focusing a great deal on screen reader accessibility starting in 2019.

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  Zachary Kline

  • September 13, 2018 02:09

  I am a professional web accessibility tester. I have had a somewhat easier experience using the Character Builder with VoiceOver on Mac, but the modal dialogs are still problematical. I will reach out via the official contact form to offer my experience.

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  Blindgeek

  • September 12, 2021 22:43

  I’m also totally blind and trying your app out. I’m using an iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro, both using iOS v14.7.1. Even trying to confirm my character’s race is inaccessible. The fact that these problems still exist four years after this topic was originally posted is discouraging at best. I’d love to give you my money, but until these features are more usable, I just can’t do so in good conscience. I’d love to help in any way I can. I’ve been playing role-playing games, including D&D, since 1982, having to adapt everything from dice to just being able to read the PHB to my needs. D&D Beyond would be perfect for blind people if it were accessible, since dice and rules are literally at one’s fingertips. I realize we are a niche market. We are still a market, and could be a much bigger market if screen-reader support were given more than the apparent afterthought.

   

  Thanks for any help or recommendations you can give. 

   

  Eric Troup

  BlindGeek

  BlindGeek@Lioncourt.com

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