Hi. Thanks for the suggestions. Firefox had a tendency to crash on my old computer if I wanted to use my screen reader and I haven't gotten back into the habit of using it yet. I'm going to test the character builder with it soon. In the meantime there are a few other things that I have noticed. If I start on the home page instead of searching for it, the character builder is very hard to find just using NVDA and not my residual vision. This is mostly because I have to wade through several links to find it, and doing a search on the page doesn't work as I can't get my screen reader to focus back on the page. The good news is I can click the link once I find it even though I think it's in a menu. I also notice there is no "Skip/Jump to Content" link which means that every time I go to a new page I have to tab through the menus at the top of the page to get to the things I want to read. (Maybe NVDA has a way to get past this, but I haven't found it yet.)
I agree with what was said above about the character sheet. The font size is small, there is little contrast which seems to be true of most of the website, and the layout is difficult to navigate with a magnifier. I will be testing my screen reader's functionality with the character sheet when I test the character builder with Firefox.
I hope this feedback is useful to someone. I will post more when I've explored the character creator and the site a bit more.
Hi, I'm blind as well and wanted to give my own feedback. I haven't used the site or much more than character creation, but I've come across a few problems. I have enough residual vision to find the character creation link. I haven't tried using just keyboard commands, but since the link is labeled I don't think it would be much of an issue. My problem comes when I try to choose race or class. As soon as one of the windows pops up to give more information my screen reader stops working on the page. It doesn't loose focus because refocusing on the page doesn't do anything. It completely stops working on the page. I can't get any further in the process because of this.
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Hi. Thanks for the suggestions. Firefox had a tendency to crash on my old computer if I wanted to use my screen reader and I haven't gotten back into the habit of using it yet. I'm going to test the character builder with it soon. In the meantime there are a few other things that I have noticed. If I start on the home page instead of searching for it, the character builder is very hard to find just using NVDA and not my residual vision. This is mostly because I have to wade through several links to find it, and doing a search on the page doesn't work as I can't get my screen reader to focus back on the page. The good news is I can click the link once I find it even though I think it's in a menu. I also notice there is no "Skip/Jump to Content" link which means that every time I go to a new page I have to tab through the menus at the top of the page to get to the things I want to read. (Maybe NVDA has a way to get past this, but I haven't found it yet.)
I agree with what was said above about the character sheet. The font size is small, there is little contrast which seems to be true of most of the website, and the layout is difficult to navigate with a magnifier. I will be testing my screen reader's functionality with the character sheet when I test the character builder with Firefox.
I hope this feedback is useful to someone. I will post more when I've explored the character creator and the site a bit more.
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Hi, I'm blind as well and wanted to give my own feedback. I haven't used the site or much more than character creation, but I've come across a few problems. I have enough residual vision to find the character creation link. I haven't tried using just keyboard commands, but since the link is labeled I don't think it would be much of an issue. My problem comes when I try to choose race or class. As soon as one of the windows pops up to give more information my screen reader stops working on the page. It doesn't loose focus because refocusing on the page doesn't do anything. It completely stops working on the page. I can't get any further in the process because of this.
I am using Chrome and my screen reader is NVDA