AudioWizards on Steam

By Hunter, 22 January, 2020

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AudioWizards is now Available on Steam.
Yes, it‘s very great, but the Steam client isn‘t accessible with screen Reader.
If everyone know how to make it accessible let me know please.
I use the Beta of NVDA 2019.3

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By Lukas on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

Even some parts of this article are slightly outdated already, but it actually makes things simpler. For example, you don't even need to worry about a captcha on the website any more, as they seem to be using the latest version of Google's Recaptcha, where you just tick the I'm not a robot checkbox. The most amazing part of this, however, is how to remotely install Steam games through the website which really seems to be pretty okay with NVDA, without ever having to interact with the totally inaccessible Steam client for Windows itself. And this definitely worked flawlessly for me! This effectively means I won't even be installing the iOS Steam app, which is what many used to recommend to circumvent some of their accessibility issues before. There seems to be no real reason for me to do that.

In fact, I'm absolutely delighted about the game. It's pretty much exactly the same thing as on iOS, but with really simple and intuitive, expectable keyboard controls. The part that blew me away the most about it is the really seamless integration of screen reader support! If they just added the escape key to back out of menus and home and end to quickly jump to the first and last item of a menu respectively, it'd be a very tasty and welcome, but still just icing on the cake.

Lukas

By KE7ZUM on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

OH wow, cool. Hmm, maybe I might try this for a mini marathon stream in February, or shall I wait until the big one first week in march
This is exciting.

By Remy on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

I don't feel the need to buy the game a second time, but it's great they've put it up, and i'll certainly support it with review and wishlist at the least.

By Jonathan Candler on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

Steam is accessible on windows, not so on mac. I use steam all the time and with this latest update, gotten a hell of a lot better. Sure, there are some stuff that you may have to work around, but it's gotten better.

By KE7ZUM on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

As far as I know the latest update of steam is accessible in widnows. I don't use sighted assistantce for any game loading etc on steam. Now that I have it working, it's grate. And the html like interface really works well.

By Hunter on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

Ok, I have done, what was in the description at the reddit Website. But if I want to install the game from the Steam Website, my Pc opened the Steam Client and nothing happens. How do you navigate in this program and what is the review cursor and how I can use them?

By Lukas on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

In reply to by Hunter

Hi folks,
okay, over at the Audiogames.net forum, I was pointed to a much better, more in-depth and more recent guide on using Steam with a screen reader.
https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/30133/how-to-use-steam-with-a-screen-reader-in-2019/
This should explain more things in greater detail and in a clearer way.
For using the NVDA review cursor or Jaws cursor, you should probably consult the respective screen reader's user's guide or some tutorial materials that can be found all over the internet. That's kind of complicated to explain in a single forum post but not too difficult to use in practice.
This guide helped me to clarify several remaining things about using Steam that were still unclear to me.
+Lukas

By Hunter on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

What is the review mode and how I use this?

See my previous post. Others have explained these things better than I could. Just consult the NVDA user guide or something. But in principle, it's a way of reviewing the contents of the entire screen or window if they are not accessible using standard keyboard navigation. NVDA has several different modes of screen review plus an object navigation feature, so I'm not delving into that, sorry.
Lukas

By AppleVis on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 10:16

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

A polite reminder that if you want information or advice with using Steam on a PC and with Windows screen readers, AppleVis is not the place for this.

Thank you for your understanding and for keeping things on topic.