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angorwhosebabyisthis · 11 months ago

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does anyone have recommendations for a good style guide to make rpg rulebooks accessible for screen readers without losing a bunch of important readability aspects in the process? all the screen reader style guides i can find are more for webpages than rulebooks, which seem like good principles for web design, but, uh. in large part just come down to 'don't make anything that utilizes [major aspects of a rulebook's design, structure, and presentation]' instead of like. giving advice for how to denote these things in a way that screen readers can communicate well over plain text. i don't use one, so it's not intuitive for me to tell what's something most people consider a necessary sacrifice for parsing described content vs things that will just bog it down, as well as what structures work best to make shit less confusing in general.

i'm totally happy to chop things up and rearrange them for the screen reader-accessible versions! i just, well, need to know how to do that. again, if anyone has good resources, tips, or examples of a rulebook that was well-formatted for you, they are very much welcome!

#whosebaby makes things #whosebaby does game dev #ttrpg tag #i have an extremely difficult time keeping up with alt text on tumblr #which really fucking sucks #but i am disabled in such a way that if i never posted anything without it i would be unable to exist on the internet at all #so like. there's that.#but if it's an Actual Project I am Putting Dedicated Work Into as a Finished Product i want it to be accessible #i'm already putting in work to make it easier to parse and digest for sighted people who might struggle with it otherwise #and it'd just be really shitty of me to not put the same effort in for people who *literally* cannot access it period if i don't #and trying to apply 'this is what i would want out of it if i was using a screen reader' has not been super helpful as a principle #because; well..... again; i don't use one and don't have experience with what works vs what is just a pain in the ass #see: 'i would want extremely detailed descriptions of an image so i don't miss anything--oh that's a nightmare apparently whoops'#ableism mention cw #is there a name for that tag #(looking for more than just a name here but it's my general tag for this kind of thing)

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