Steam just added screen reader support in the latest Big Picture Mode beta. On the Deck. On SteamOS. On Linux.
Not hacked in. Not community-patched. Built-in. From Valve.
There's an accessibility tab. There's a screen reader. There's high-contrast mode, UI scaling, color filters, reduced motion, and more.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but: I need a Steam Deck now.
Accessibility isn’t just coming to gaming — it’s here, and it’s official.
Let’s make some noise so they keep going.
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/games/689922/steam-is-adding-screen-reader-support-and-other-accessibility-tools
#Accessibility #Gaming #SteamDeck #ScreenReader #Linux #valve

@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