The latest version of OpenMPT has made much improvements towards accessibility for screen readers, and I have made a video as well as point out some small tracks of sorts with it. Join in if you can!

https://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=7342.msg50982#new

The Goemon series is awesome and, like software accessibility, does not receive the attention it probably deserves. Thanks for going through the trouble of putting some information together.

Are you able to use a terminal emulator (Windows command prompt or otherwise)?

@VirtualMan Terminal emulator for what exactly?

For anything.

Accessibility roadblocks often stem from excessive or downright incorrect usage of GUI toolkits and their various components. A terminal emulator destroys such barriers, as its programs tend to be completely text-based. Also, pointer controls tend to be an afterthought; everything is keyboard-controlled by default.

If you become proficient at the terminal, you leapfrog sighted users and become a power user. You no longer have to deal with program-specific hacks, as all programs are funnelled through the terminal. You are no longer an afterthought but the star of the show.

At least, that's my theory. I am a sighted user, so I can only pretend. Sometimes I close my eyes and use eww

for work.

(Also, there is actually a really good MOD tracker for the terminal, but it only runs on Linux, and almost nobody knows about it.)

By the way, you were right about the “keep sample” checkbox

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@VirtualMan Yeah that's sorta true but only sorta.

While the terminal is usable when working with applications that run in it, text isn't always printed to the screen so screen readers can take note of it. A nice example is some bbses that don't print text normally and use some art form that looks like text, so when that gets pushed to the screen reader you know what we get?

"letter 5 3 6-letter 5 3 7 hash 1 dollar dollar dollar" and so on.
Now keep in mind I haven't tried this Linux tracker although I might know what it is. Could it be plebtracker? But regardless much trackers that had terminal uce did so not just because that's what they had to do, but they did it because they were testing the limitations of the hardware they were working with.

Let me put it in another way for you. You like emulation? Do you like the ps2 and it's games? Do you want to know how much games have accessibility for those that have blindness? None.


So what I want you to do when you get the time, is to load up pcsx2 and load up dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 3, and then after load up virtua fighter 4, and strap on some headphones as you'll need it for accessibility. But Juan! You told me that they're no games for the blind to play!

Now when you're at the main menu you'll note that what the hell! The menu is talking with the characters for DBZBT3 and VF4 is saying exactly what I'm on! What is this? Did the people actually care? Well, no. No they didn't. Much of the games of this time were doing exactly what I'm saying, they're testing the limitations of the hardware they're working with and they thought that talking out some of the game's menus was a nice way to push the hardware and its limits. So to bring that all to the flatline, that level of accidental accessibility within those games was and is just that, an accident, and in much ways that's even more bad because you'll never play the same way with your friends who can see like that again when the newer game drops.

You can be the star of the show, at least until the newer game comes out and woooooo shiney grafics, sorry guy gotta go to play the new game you have fun, when all you wanted was to be part in the community that you love so much, a community that hardly knows you're around.
I don't want stardom, I don't care for it.
So much trackers are out in the world and almost all of them are unusable unless you like reading the window title if you're luckey and playing the song, again if you're luckey.

Even the new tracker that came out called osctet https://jangler.github.io/osctet/ is already far along that the UI is more than likely so coupled with the tracker that I won't even be able to ask if accesskit can be integrated to make the menus at least work. But at least the window title is readable and I can push enter to play the music.


If you want to check out accesskit here it is.
https://accesskit.dev/.
The people behind access kit took note of a problem and really want to work to get it taken care of as sadly the world is moving to more and more of these UI and more and more screen reader users are being left out.
If you want to see what it's like being one of my people you can use NVDA, and I will be more than happy to give you my power user config that has some adons that you might need. https://www.nvaccess.org/