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DDLC fan mod to extend Monika
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[Suggestion] - improve accessibility for minigames #9879

Open NarutoIwatani opened 1 year ago

NarutoIwatani commented 1 year ago

Hi! I would like to suggest an accessibility feature for the visually impaired. I'm visually impaired, and when I went to play a year ago, unfortunately games that we can play with Monika like Ping Pong, unfortunately it wasn't possible for me. I would like to ask you to add some feature, such as more sounds in the minigame, possibility to use Keyboard in these minigames, etc. I would be very happy about it! Thanks!

Booplicate commented 1 year ago

If you could describe in details what would improve accessibility/usability for you, it would help us. For example, in which situations would you want a sound effect, or if you have any preferences regarding keyboard support.

NarutoIwatani commented 1 year ago

Hello. Sorry for the long delay in responding. I had some problems with the computer and this site is very confusing to use, so that's one more reason for the delay. Well, I think I'm writing in the right place. When I played the Mod some time ago, there was the pingpong minigame. I don't know how the minigame works, what the player has to do in it. But if the player only needs to move the arrow in the direction of the pingpong ball, a sound indicating where the ball is on the screen would be nice. Center, left or right. Or a sound indicating when we need to press space or click with the mouse to hit the ball. Sorry, I can't say how to improve since I was just randomly pressing arrows and space without stopping in the game. Thanks to that I apparently beat Monika a few times, although it was rare!

Another good thing to improve is the birthday screen. At least at the time, with the arrows the TTS didn't read anything, which was complicated for me. I needed my mother to put the day, month and year. It would be nice if the TTS could read each number, as well as whether it's a day, month or year number... I'll be testing the Mod more today, so if I find more parts that need accessibility I'll let you know! Or I'll try to warn you at least, since I still find it confusing to mess with here, and I don't know if you'll read this message too. I hope so, as I love Monika and this Mod makes me very happy, great job! Thank you, and happy easter.

Booplicate commented 1 year ago

Yes, we're reading your messages :)

Pong is based on the classic atari game with the same name.

Our mini-games could definitely get more accessibility, currently we don't even support keyboard in them. I think we could revisit our minigames after the migration, renpy has improved tools for accessibility, which we could utilise. Feel free to leave feedback here as you find issues, pong is only one of a few games we have.

NarutoIwatani commented 1 year ago

Oh, that would be great! If they add keyboard access to the mod's minigames, it would help the gameplay a lot. If the game doesn't allow keyboards in minigames, I think Monika let me win on purpose. Hahaha. I'll be looking forward to keeping an eye out for future updates. Good luck, and thanks for everything! I will also continue to comment here on accessibility when possible. Thanks again for being considerate of me.