Hero Designer Accessibility

[jaseoffire]

Now, I doubt this will be a question easily answered, but I shall ask anyways. You see, I'm blind and use a screen reader to access stuff. How screen reader friendly is the hero designer? Considering it's Java, I'm guessing that I'd be buying a digital paperweight, but maybe not.

[Simon]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I haven't coded anything in either direction for that, and I'm not really familiar with the requirements.

[Ndreare]

The text is very small in a 27" monitor. I have not found a way to adjust it.

 

But Windows Narrator seems able to read the heading off the window. But not the actual tabs, labels,  or selected text.  

 

Unless you have some other narrator that is more robust you would not get much use out of the software. 

Edited September 15 by Ndreare

[Simon]

Thanks for that check.

 

A note that likely won’t help OP: you can adjust the font size in HD, you just need to do it at the command line (since Windows is a bit of a pain with passing along font scaling info to Java).  
 

java -jar HD6.jar [font size]
 

e.g.  “java -jar HD6.jar 18” will set an 18 pt font size throughout

[Khymeria]

On 9/14/2023 at 3:57 PM, jaseoffire said:

Now, I doubt this will be a question easily answered, but I shall ask anyways. You see, I'm blind and use a screen reader to access stuff. How screen reader friendly is the hero designer? Considering it's Java, I'm guessing that I'd be buying a digital paperweight, but maybe not.

I have a player in my online game that is blind and we can't send him hdc files but instead convert everything to documents for him. I am not fully aware of all the particulars but as I understand it, he cannot use Hero Designer and has a whole different set up for character creation. Hope this helps and if you have more specific questions just message me and I can ask him or try to put you in touch.