Not sure how many people that are actually registered blind have tried your game or given you feedback. I imagine i’m among the most blind, so i figured my feedback in this one particular area would be helpful.
Maybe is should start by explaining how i am an blind, and how i can play your game. I have a conditions called Retinitis Pigmentosa, i’m in my 40’s so in the last stage of losing what eyesight i have left. in 2016 when i was last assessed i had about 5% usable vision, so now it would be less. i’m photosensitive, night blind, i have no peripheral vision and cataracts make everything blurry. I sit about a foot away from my TV and use a magnifying glass to read things on the screen or look at the map.
So starting off in the snowy peaks is about the worst possible place for me, due to my photosensitivity and all white being very hard to handle. However thanks to your excellent speech system that tells me when something is interactable and tells me when a skeleton archer is in the area, i’ve actually found the game a lot easier to play than i’d first anticipated. And starting in the snowy land is probably a good thing as i doubt any other area will be this hard to see in, So if i can play here then i can likely play anywhere.
Now for some feedback for things that could be done to make the game even more accessible. I understand that it may not be possible to make these changes, but i thought i’d share anyway as it could really help people in my position.
You speech system although amazing, could be better if it told me what the object is that i can interact with. Instead of saying ‘interact’, it would be handy if it said ‘interact with door’ ‘interact with stone’
i believe there is a pop up that tells you when your about to cross into a new area. I’ve not had a chance to see this properly as it disappears before i can get my magnifying glass to look at it. If its what i think it is, It would be handy if the pop up didn’t disappear as i’m worried i might run into higher difficulty area or pvp zones when i don’t want to. If its not that, then i don’t know what it is and it would be handy if it stayed up so i could find out.
And the big one that would make the game 100% easier for me to play is to have an invert colour option for the map. As i said i’m photosensitive, and having a bright white map, with pale blue ocean, with map markers that don’t contrast with the white is very hard for me to see and puts a lot of strain on my eyes. If there was an option to keep all the map markers the colour they are, change all the area’s you can’t walk on to white and have the place’s you can walk be black it would be much easier. Its the reason most apps now have dark mode to make them easier for people like me to see. I know that’s quite a big ask and not something you can do right now while you are sorting server fires. But if this is something that can be implemented in the future i’d much appreciate it.
Anyway i hope this feedback find the people that can actually use it, and it doesn’t get buried under all the complaining posts. Because i’m enjoying what i’ve played and i think i could play this game, which i can’t say for a lot of games.