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Does not reflect ([personal profile] mirrorofsmoke) wrote2019-10-03 10:38 am

Twine

For those of you who know how to code in Twine, does anyone know if you can do Twine code in a text editer like you can regular HTML? Because i want to code something in Twine, but guess what isn't accessible! You guessed it. Not the devs' faults this time, though. People have pointed it out but they claim they need concrete problems for fixing instead of just being informed and they don't have bl/visually impaired beta testers. I'd be happy to do the beta testing, if it'd make Twine accessible, as we've got a story to tell that could benefit nicely from that non-linear storytelling method, but I know nothing about Github, nor how to sign up and find the whole thing supremely intimidating, but I really want accessible Twine. The fact it isn't makes us sad.

[personal profile] ex_not643 2019-10-12 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
From what we've seen, Github's repository pages don't look very accessible at all, possibly because it's yet another one of those websites that is predominantly powered by side-loaded Javascript that screenreaders can't pick up.

It appears that Twine itself uses a graphical editing system, which obviously won't work if you're using a screenreader, but we did find a page that offers a text-only version of Twine. I've never used it myself, so I can't make any claims one way or the other about it, though.

~K.