If you're like me, and had a subscription to Apple Arcade for ages, yet having no games that are playable,it should then come as some good news that a game there is making progress in Voiceover support.
While viewing the recently updated section out of curiosity, the game Dear reader was among the list, and the release notes for the latest update as of this post specificly mentioned improvements for Voiceover. They weren't kidding, as the pieces of the puzzles needing to be put in place are now indicated as "word fragment" among other things.
Though it's a bit bumpy on both Mac and iOS, this is certainly a step in the right direction, and I'm sure any word game fans or book lovers would like to give this one a shot.
By Paul Martin, 15 February, 2022
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Thanks for this
Well spotted. Fingers cross this is the start of something. I'd love a gaming platform that has accessibility built in. Apple does seem perfectly positioned to implament this and the lower quality graphics and smaller games, like audio games, do seem well suited to this platform.
Star Trek Legends
Star Trek Legends with screen recognition and a game controller is playable, but goad to see a game with full accessible support.
waiting for accessible madden nfl
well I am patiently waiting for an accessible nfl game, baseball, and hockey game for IOS and iPad-OS... along with press your luck, a truck-driving sim like jim Kitchen's game, and other similar games but the sports games is what I really want to see.
Can we try the Dear Reader without getting that high-dollar Appl
Hello,
I'm pretty sure the Apple Arcade sub's pretty steep in price, so I'm not getting it on the only credit card I do use for Apple things--not the Apple card, by the way. therefore, is there any way we can try the Dear Reader game free without paying that much money for the subscription? if so, how far will that take you, and what are the bumps on the accessability side you need to jump over/how to do that?
Trial Run
Happy to see this topic is still alive!
As for a trial of the game, I'm not aware of any plans to make this happen, or even of the game being brought to other medium than Apple Arcade. Best I can suggest is to take advantage of the trial run of the arcade service itself, the length of which escapes me. After that though, the Apple Arcade is $5 USD.
I must admit I'd likely not have Arcade myself had it not been part of iCloud Plus, and that's not to bash the game at all. That would surely change though if there were more than this single game available that were not just "playable", but fully accessible to Voiceover users. Things are looking up in that front with the Unity updates forthcoming, but that's for another forum topic.
trial length
the trial of Apple Arkayed is one month.