Acessibility questions

[dangernoodle]

Hi! I really want to try to make my game more accessible. I'm thinking of using alt tags for the images but I have some other questions.

One thing I'd like to do would be having a character find a document that the player can read. What's the best way to handle this? Making an image and putting the contents in the alt tag? Making an extra large textbox with the contents? I don't really know what the limitations of screen readers and alt tags might be, so if anyone has any accessibility guides for Ren'Py, that would be really helpful! Thank you

[Ocelot]

> Making an extra large textbox with the contents?

I suggest using NVL mode for that.

There are two main styles of presentation used for visual novels. ADV-style games present dialogue and narration one line at a time, generally in a window at the bottom of the screen. NVL-style games present multiple lines on the screen at a time, in a window that takes up the entire screen.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/nvl_mode.html

[dangernoodle]

> Making an extra large textbox with the contents?

I suggest using NVL mode for that.

There are two main styles of presentation used for visual novels. ADV-style games present dialogue and narration one line at a time, generally in a window at the bottom of the screen. NVL-style games present multiple lines on the screen at a time, in a window that takes up the entire screen.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/nvl_mode.html

Doesn't that apply to the whole VN? Because I only want 1-2 screens to show a full text (a document the player character finds and reads).

[Ocelot]

Not, you can switch between modes as you wish (mode is actually property of a character):

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define char_a = Character("")
define char_b = Character("", kind=nvl)
# . . . 
char_a "this will be shown in ADV mode"
char_b "This is the first line of text in NVL mode"
char_b "This is the second line of text in NVL mode"
char_a "we in ADV mode again!"