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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.29 01:00:00 -
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Since I started playing EVE I've always been frustrated with the lack of accessibility in the game. I've had enough. It's time to address this once and for all. I've read posts where even "sighted" individuals (i.e. normal sighted persons) have a hard time seeing the text in EVE.
At the 2009/10 Fanfest (Can't remember which) there was a guy who was "holding the torch" for users wanting support for the Linux platform. One of the GM's respectfully said that less then 1% of EVE players use Linux and therefore it was not feasable. I would HOPE this is not the thinking behind NOT supporting the visually impared.
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Marconus Orion
Global Criminal Countdown
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Posted - 2011.01.29 01:11:00 -
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You should give more details about certain issues within the game that is hard for those visually impaired. I know what it means but lets face it, there is a crap ton of kids playing (at least that is their mentality) and they probably won't know what you are on about unless you explain it a bit more.
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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.29 01:37:00 -
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+ UI "Contrast Mode": All text is colored sharp-white. NOT gray or light gray, but WHITE. That means for those of you who are nerdy, 255, 255, 255 in RGB.
All "fading" or "gradient" effects REMOVED in this mode. This should cause all fading to make the UI "flat" -- just like when you talk about a flat black vs. a glossy black.
+ Font Type Selection: I now how hesitant developers are to change something they've created into a certain mold, because I AM one. But, honestly there NEEDS to be a choice of at LEAST 2 other alternative fonts. I'm guessing the reason CCP chose the font they have chosen is because of the "CAPS" that are used in their menus, etc. They also most likely chose it because it is one of the only fonts that will not "break" or alias badly when in a small size. Having said this, there needs to be support for a least one other font that only renders in a larger size maybe, so that the eye can cope with the small sized fonts.
+ 800 x 600 Resolution Support: I know you're saying "what?" let me explain. On every PC I have installed EVE, 800 x 600 is very difficult to confgiure. On my XP machine, I had to put the client into Windowed mode first before the 800 x 600 resolution even showed up. My Mac simply does NOT have 800 x 600 for an option in the client. If this is a problem to code or what-knot, I think there should be a "Zoom" mode that uses a high resolution and then EMULATES 800 x 600 in that high resolution. In other words you would scale it so that the 1024 x 768 would actually render as 800 x 600. This would be a tick box, in the Graphics settings.
Everything I have listed above is completely doable. These accommodations are reasonable because I'm also taking into account the time and effort to pull something like this off.
Is there something I should be more specific about? (Not saracstic.)
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Arx Eladios
THE PAROXYSM
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Posted - 2011.01.29 02:55:00 -
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EVE is famous for inducing eye strain even for those that do not have any visual disability. I can imagine the pure frustration of anyone with failing eye sight trying to play EVE.
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Marconus Orion
Global Criminal Countdown
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Posted - 2011.01.29 07:54:00 -
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I think you cover it. Sounds good to me.
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Wolodymyr
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Posted - 2011.01.29 08:32:00 -
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BIGGER TEXT!
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Mollies Sakura
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Posted - 2011.01.29 10:04:00 -
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Supported, also have you thought of adding bigger buttons to control the windows (pin, minimize, exit)? My eyesight is not great and the text gives me a hard time but my worst problem is accidentally clicking exit instead of minimize because my mouse is 14x bigger than the buttons.
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Janos Saal
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Posted - 2011.01.29 12:19:00 -
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No excuse for not supporting visually impaired players. Get your **** together ccp.
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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.29 18:59:00 -
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It's interesting as I was mulling this over. Since EVE is played by young and old alike, you would think CCP would want their old players to keep coming back. You would also think that they would want their young players who will inevitably become old (in the game and real life) to be able to actually play so they can PAY and be a returning customer. This even works out from the business stand-point, BIG LOL. Why nip this in the bud right now?
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Val'Dore
Word Bearers of Chaos
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Posted - 2011.01.29 19:35:00 -
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I have challenged eye sight, but luckily it doesn't effect my ability to read text close up. Yet.
~No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.~ |
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Goose99
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Posted - 2011.01.29 20:46:00 -
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Supported.
Another issue is with increasing monitor sizes. The interface and font is tiny at the high native resolutions of newer monitors. There is no interface scaling at all. Running at below native resolution introduce display problems and blur. I don't think it's fair to those of us that use decent computers instead of decade old laptops.
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Arklan1
Fleet Coordination Commission
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Posted - 2011.01.30 02:36:00 -
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absolutely.
also, while nothing comes to mind specifically, keep in mind the colorblind as well. (like me!)
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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.30 04:24:00 -
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So, do expand on that. How could the UI suit the needs of a color-blind person?
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Dr BattleSmith
PAX Interstellar Services
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Posted - 2011.01.30 04:39:00 -
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A small team, gathered around patch time.
This team creates test cases and experiments to ensure Eve patches conform to the usability and accessibility issues they've identified.
Some alliances pain-killers and hot nurses are the main topic of idle discussion.
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Greg Huff
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Posted - 2011.01.30 17:15:00 -
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Please allow larger text sizes. Even if not a full range of sizes, at least Normal, Large, X-Large.
Please, Please, Please make this happen.
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Liang Nuren
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Posted - 2011.01.30 19:34:00 -
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Why stop there? Fix the colorblind issues as well.
-Liang -- Eve Forum ***** Extraordinaire On Twitter
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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.31 00:00:00 -
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Let's get some ideas down for the colorblind folks. I'm not quite sure what would need to be altered for a colorblind person.
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Arklan1
Fleet Coordination Commission
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Posted - 2011.01.31 00:18:00 -
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honestly the more i think on it, the more i realize i don't have any color issues with this game. maybe in the PI scanning... but who looks for anything besides the hotspots anyway?
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Alqualonde
Merch Industrial Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.01.31 00:27:00 -
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I would be happy if they just put a line through the damned zero and and at the bottom of the lower-case 'L', but apparently even those 10-minute changes which eliminate an insane amount of frustration are too much to ask.
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Maxsim Goratiev
Imperial Tau Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.01.31 12:37:00 -
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Supporting all UI improvements since 2007
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Alexa Bashkevenko
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Posted - 2011.01.31 20:34:00 -
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Edited by: Alexa Bashkevenko on 31/01/2011 20:35:12 Supported
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Vlad Texi
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Posted - 2011.01.31 20:36:00 -
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If you have more well thought-out ideas, do share them. I'd like to consolidate all of our requests into one post.
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