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Join this steam group! Help the Visually Impaired Players! (steamcommunity.com)
submitted by Raf_AL
Nighthawk321 3 points 6y ago
While this is a cool idea, I'm probably not going to be commenting on Steam. Their forums and comment threads are a pain to navigate.
Raf_AL [OP] 2 points 6y ago
Do you have any ideas how to make this work better? I'm not completely blind, So I don't know the obstacles you have to get through. This is probably a thing you're interested in, if you're a partially sighted person, like me for instance.
Nighthawk321 3 points 6y ago
Well, it's a great idea to start, but the thing is, since steam isn't generally the most accessible for totally blind players like myself, not many blind people have steam accounts to begin with. Since they most likely won't have accounts, they won't be able to provide their input. I think, you should post links in the body of the steam post to /r/blind, /r/audiogames, and audiogames.net. Also, I don't mean to self promote either, but you may want to add my Youtube channel into that list as well. I play a bunch of different types of games. It would be a way to show sighted people what games are very playable, and what games we struggle with. I hope this helps.

Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZujToINVP7xax9BTc7s2g
Raf_AL [OP] 3 points 6y ago
I can't promise you to get a post of your yt channel there, since im't not a moderator in the group. I can however contact the admin and ask about these issues. I'l see if he wants to post the links or not. Thanks for your input.
Nighthawk321 3 points 6y ago
Yeah for sure! And if you can't get the channel posted, no big deal. Definitely ask about the subreddits and audiogames.net though.
snow671 1 points 6y ago
Good luck with your group! If it gains attention, I hope you bring up the inaccessibility of the Steam platform to game developers.
Raf_AL [OP] 3 points 6y ago
Thanks for the support. One thing we could do here on Reddit, is making a list of the things that make steam inaccessible to completely blind users. After we get some discussion going, those of us who can use steam could try to post discussions about the issues in the steam community forums.
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