Okay, its time to be honest. I accidently sent this to the moderators as an R-Mail, before hearing this thread. I somehow missed it when checking out threads to post this in, and thus, the R-Mail. My apologies Mods, and I thank you for not saying anything about it so far.
- Note, there are two other blind individuals besides me on this website, so far that I’m aware of.
- There are four other non-correctible low vision individuals on RPOL regularly, which I am also aware of.
There are, I’m pretty sure, more than this, but I know with absolute certainty of this number. The following is my general opinion regarding RPOL, and a couple of things that serve as difficulties for me, which I’m pretty sure aren’t for fully sighted individuals. They have also served as difficulties for some of those other people tangentially mentioned previously. Not all, but some of them. Let me state, upfront, that by and large my interactions on RPOL, and with RPOL, have been positive. Furthermore, for the general knowledge and awareness of the moderators, and the administrator, or administrators, regarding RPOL from a blind user’s perspective. I don’t claim to be the end all, be all, for blind/ low vision users of RPOL, I’m not that egotistical - - tongue and cheek joke intended, but still this information might be useful. I hope it is at any rate, but at worst it won’t be useless, entirely.
By and large RPOL is easy enough to use, if one is using a screen-reader: joining games, posting in-game, interacting with other players, is all easy enough. While I would love it if the character portrait tags carried more information, I understand this is one of wishes were horses kind of requests.
From a player’s perspective, the only major issue is the Help menu. When you go to help from the FAQ, sometimes links must be clicked on multiple times before they respond, and the search function doesn’t seem to work.
From a Game Moderator stand point, the single greatest issue comes in the attempt to run different groups. The check-boxes for each group, a-z, and 1-9, are listed after their related groups. So you hear all the numbers, and all the letters, before you hear the checkboxes. This kind of makes things difficult. So far, these are the only two major issues I’ve encountered on this website.
The first is a bit more significant, than the second, because some people don’t run games. Still, it would be nice if the check-boxes in that section followed the same code as all the others, which means the box is above the words informing you what the box does. I really love this place, and want to eventually start running games here, and at present will, eventually search for helper GMs to help me get around this issue, since after a week and a half I can find no work around, still I felt it and the other issue should be brought to everyone’s’ attention. I wish you the best,
Respectfully,
Agious.
