@fireborn Wonder if there's a way to turn on the screen reader without sighted assistance?

@fireborn Yeah, a Steam Deck is in my consideration range now as well, I mean why not? Would surely elevate my gaming experience a lot. Always nice to have something else than the generic audio game, and maybe I can even use my eyes a little bit, who knows.

@fireborn Oh, it can be enabled at any time by pressing... image + image.

@fireborn Are there still any parts of the installation and setup process for Steam on Windows that aren't accessible?

Took me a WHILE to understand “dropped” in that sentence

Dropped *with* accessibility? This is good news?

@fireborn

@fireborn Fuckin' aye. <3

I bought my Steam Deck at launch, then my vision degraded past the point where I can actually read the screen. So I've not been able to use it for months, not even enough to find the system update menu.

This would help. A lot.

@fireborn

Dropped

I interpreted that as removed
It took me a bit to realize it was added
:p

@fireborn omg that’s amazing
hopefully their work is applicable outside of steam too

I updated it. I have no idea what happened here.

@pixelate @fireborn Hell yeah, now I want a steam deck.

@fireborn hmm is this like a fork or config of orca or something new ? and if new, is it open source ?

@fireborn sick

@fireborn this is great news!

@fireborn did they use orca? Or which screen reader is it?

I don't know yet. I would think something custom but I'm not sure yet.

It defaults to it if you install with a screen reader. I'm not sure beyond that. Debian has packages that are older than I am, so I wouldn't worry about them dropping it any time soon.

@fireborn I think I'll get myself Steam Deck 2 when it's released one day (Steam Deck is a bit on the outdated side now). I actually never owned any handheld console ever, no Gameboys and stuff. Only thing I ever owned was those 99 in 1 hand consoles from the 90s that are just 99 variants of Tetris in different modes.

@fireborn Cool! We finally see the first concrete results of the European Accessibility Act!

@fireborn I wonder if they did it because the Switch 2 also has it?

@fireborn oh my God, no shit!

@fireborn This is a huge turn-around. Valve historicly hasn't cared about Accessibility much if at all. Big Picture Mode is already usable, nice that they're really making it work!

@fireborn fucking awesome

@fireborn Going to guess they're using ESpeak for the TTS engine?

@fireborn wonder if steam will provide games an api for accessibility settings at some point too, where a game can just see that you've enabled prefer reduce motion and automatically enable its equivalent when you start the game for the first time, without having to first go through the games settings to find it

@fireborn

This is really great! As a classic Doom player, I also find this here absolutely brilliant: https://youtu.be/AGVLrQfgi5o?si=8x6ddqb2LsGsrJus

@lunalms

😀

@fireborn I wish they gave their windows App more Accessibilitylove also

@rooktallon @fireborn Now if only steamdecks could be used to play Forza, they can't.

@fireborn I wish they would add it to Windows, so I can use it more indepenently.

@delta @fireborn if we go this route, i'd love to see them add like, "accessibility ratings" to games, or something like that!

@yukijoou @delta I heard something about adding accessibility features to the sidebar of the store when viewing a game.

@yukijoou @delta @fireborn they did! look:

RE: https://mastodon.lubar.me/users/ben/statuses/114713722408046497

@tauon @delta @fireborn amazing!!!!

@yukijoou @delta @tauon the first time Valve has really talked about accessibility at all.

@mckensie I would guess so.

@fireborn Either that or they might use some compact version of Google TTS or something. The nintendo switch uses the neospeech voices. They could be using some other engine like Amazon or Google but you never know

@mckensie I highly doubt it, they're using Orca and speech-dispatcher

@fireborn Or they could be using something like Dectalk. But I mean you could get it on there if wanted to either way

@mckensie There is no way they would use something legally dubious as DECTalk

@fireborn I hope they don't use festival because that. just, no

@Brynify Yeah, it's really exciting stuff.

@FreakyFwoof Very possibly. I haven't used it to see how fleshed out it is to ague that.

@fireborn Have you heard my demo of the Nintendo offerings?

@FreakyFwoof I have. It could certainly be better but it's a good start.

@fireborn Yep, I check for all the things with each system update.

@biou It's super exciting. I have hope that the EAA will encourage real change.

@Isofruit @fireborn it’s Orca

@ebassi @fireborn in that case fingers crossed for valve furthering orca development or general work on newton!

@bug I don't know anything other than what they disclosed. I don't have a deck yet to poke at it.

@em I don't know any more than is on their explanation page. I'm hopeful, too.