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A hearty hello

#1 Post by BlindMan »

Hello to all. I am BlindMan. I am legally blind, sight in one eye. I've been a novelist for a few years and stumbled across this site today.

It looks very good. And I've been searching for a Ren'ai creation program to write novels for my friends.

plug: My fav visual novel is Kana: Imouto (ending 4). I had never weeped before until then.

Anyways, does anyone know of any Ren'Ai creation software that is Screen-Reader compatible? I'm primarily looking for Text-only programs with sound. (since my drawing is HORRID and my totally blind friends wouldn't quite care about my 'lovely' pictures.) ^_^

I have an attachment for the manual of a Visual Novel creator for the GamePark 32 handheld. It has a syntax that is very appealing to me. Check the demo file.

If anyone knows such a program for Win32 (or could port it / make a similar syntax system) please let me know.

PS - If you have Paypal, I wouldn't mind compensating you for your time and effort...

-BlindMan
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#2 Post by Taleweaver »

Uwaah - a novelist. Finally, company ^^

I fancy myself a writer, too, though I haven't published a novel yet, so far. Written - yes. ^_^

I'm afraid I can't help you with your problem, though. Maybe Py'Tom could convert Ren'Py to fit that special purpose?
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#3 Post by PyTom »

Hi. I'm the author of the Ren'Py visual novel engine. You can read the syntax that I use for an example game at:

http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/dl/5.0/example.html

While right now there's no support for accessibility in Ren'Py, I'd be happy to add support. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what the best way to do this would be.

One idea would be to have Ren'Py run in a mode that prints text out into a command prompt window, while somehow indicating what can be clicked on or not. I'm assuming that there's fairly good command prompt support in readers, right?

I don't know much about adding accessibility to applications, so if you could give me some pointers in the right direction, that would help a bit.
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#4 Post by BlindMan »

I've never worked with Python stuff before, and don't know how accessible it would be. I have worked with other engines. *ADRIFT, Quest, QML and they work fine.

Command line apps are a pain for the VI comunity. If I may, I will make a GUI and post a screenshot when I can. Shouldn't be too hard.

I assume the 'game' is read from a file? And Ren'Py interprets it along with graphics and such.

Thanks again,
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#5 Post by PyTom »

Well, Ren'Py is just one python program. My gut feeling is that as it stands now, Ren'Py isn't very accessible... I treat text as images throughout.

If someone could point me to some documentation explaining how to program for accessibility, that would probably help.
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