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World of Warcraft clasic: burning crusade is playable with addons. (self.Blind)
submitted by bradley22
This is very exciting for those who like this kind of game and I do, and will be joining on friday.
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Here's a link to read more about it from audiogames: $1
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Here's a link to read more about it from audiogames: $1
Criferald 3 points 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
I was also working on a $1 using its support for speech synthesizers on MacOS and Windows, but ended up giving up because, as a totally blind developer, I couldn't do much beyond providing a screen-reader for the game's user interface as I couldn't navigate the game world alone myself, plus I didn't want to have to update the add-on every time Blizzard patched the game and changed something that caused it to break. The existence of that competing add-on for classic that was far more developed than mine with contributions from sighted people also weighted in my decision to stop development.
I really do miss classic World of Warcraft, especially considering that vanilla through Wrath of the Lich King were the only versions that I played seriously, so I might actually update the 77GB client that I still have installed on my Mac, resubscribe for a month, and try to play with that add-on myself, which I hadn't tried before despite knowing about its existence because it was in German.
I was also working on a $1 using its support for speech synthesizers on MacOS and Windows, but ended up giving up because, as a totally blind developer, I couldn't do much beyond providing a screen-reader for the game's user interface as I couldn't navigate the game world alone myself, plus I didn't want to have to update the add-on every time Blizzard patched the game and changed something that caused it to break. The existence of that competing add-on for classic that was far more developed than mine with contributions from sighted people also weighted in my decision to stop development.
I really do miss classic World of Warcraft, especially considering that vanilla through Wrath of the Lich King were the only versions that I played seriously, so I might actually update the 77GB client that I still have installed on my Mac, resubscribe for a month, and try to play with that add-on myself, which I hadn't tried before despite knowing about its existence because it was in German.
SightlessBastard 2 points 1y ago
Is this the addon called “WoWaccess”?
Criferald 2 points 1y ago
If you mean the add-on that I linked to, no, it's called Vimp and is 100% made by me. I did Google for WoWaccess, and while it does have some functionality overlap with my own, they're very different since mine is lacking many features covered by WoWaccess, and I don't think WoWaccess has as much support for the in-game user interface as mine does. Regardless, my add-on is probably broken by now considering that I haven't touched it for months and Blizzard has patched the game since then.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I'm not sure, sorry.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
No problem!
Nighthawk321 2 points 1y ago
Feel free to post this to /r/AccessibleGaming.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Done!
howwedo420 2 points 1y ago
Oh man I haven't played this game in Forever. They have a ton of atoms that are sound related get out of the fire, daily Boss mod, and if I remember there's a raid addon that really good too.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Cool. I can’t believe this game actually is playable by those who are completely blind now.
howwedo420 2 points 1y ago
It's nothing new the game has been playable since add ons it since actually the game came out it is very visually impaired blind friendly
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Now it’s completely accessible. Completely blind people can now set up their own character, without sighted assistance, they can read quests, and a lot more. Before from what I understand, you had to have a lot of sighted assistance where as now you don’t.
SightlessBastard 2 points 1y ago
Well, as far as I know, it is not “completely” accessible.
After all I’ve heard so far, the accessibility is very limited, when it comes to raids. Also, crafting doesn’t seem to be fully possible, since you can’t collect materials. It is also not possible to customize the look of your character.
That said, it is very impressive, what they did so far. Recently, I watched a twitch stream, where a few blind players tried out the game. They basically had no problems getting started and doing quests. For a game, that otherwise has never been playable for us before, that is extremely impressive.
After all I’ve heard so far, the accessibility is very limited, when it comes to raids. Also, crafting doesn’t seem to be fully possible, since you can’t collect materials. It is also not possible to customize the look of your character.
That said, it is very impressive, what they did so far. Recently, I watched a twitch stream, where a few blind players tried out the game. They basically had no problems getting started and doing quests. For a game, that otherwise has never been playable for us before, that is extremely impressive.
howwedo420 2 points 1y ago
Actually pretty excited that Microsoft bought World of Warcraft and hoping maybe more more is added to it maybe possible a console version would be nice they been talking about that for 20 years
howwedo420 2 points 1y ago
Been in a couple raids were a couple of players were completely blind it took teamwork. YouTube's look it up blind players play World of Warcraft. Anyone's capable of playing World of Warcraft there's lots of macros you can sit for multiple spells and stuff.
bradley22 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I’ll take a look, it should be fun.
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