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What goes into making a mainstream game accessible to blind and visually impaired players

An
article by Guide Dev
https://hearthstoneaccess.github.io/under-the-hood-patch-day.html
explaining the process of making
Hearthstone Access
https://hearthstoneaccess.github.io/
accessible.

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Updating my webpage

On Friday I graduated from the seven week web tester training program for screen reader users taught by the Carroll Center for the Blind!

I have a whole new respect for fulltime students, because I had forgotten how exhausting it is.

Since then I have updated my resume and applied to, and been accepted to, the Deque University online program so that I can begin studying for the CPACC (Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies).

I also updated my webpage
https://kestrell7.github.io/

If folks have some time to take a look at it and tell me whether it looks presentable, I would appreciate it, especially as it has been a while since I used GitHub, and it took me a while to refresh my memory regarding how to use the interface with a screen reader.

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I am such a geek

Now that I feel mostly confident that I am familiar enough with the GitHub interface that I can reliably reproduce the same steps with the same results, I wanted to start from the beginning with creating a new account, and then create a new repository and upload my web page to it. You only get one account per email address on GitHub, so I used my neglected gmail account.

I've also switched my browser to Firefox (as opposed to Google Chrome), because that's the browser that has the most accessibility add-ons for any level of code or web development with a screen reader.

The bad news: of course there were variations from what I experienced using Chrome, but I'm not sure if it is the browser or just me noticing more this time around because I'm more relaxed. The ocd in me wants to be *positive* to get the *identical* results *every time*, even though the small (microscopic, actually) sane part of my brain keeps calmly repeating that that way madness lies.

Well, we're all mad here, right?

The good news is that I've significantly cut down on the steps involved in signing up and getting web page files onto GitHub.

The new account is going to be the one I use and I'm keeping my old one for experimenting with.

The new web page will be kestrell7.github.io

Next step: add html to the help docs and upload them to the kestrell7 web page.

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Request for feedback on my new webpage

I think I have the first version of my webpage properly formatted, and I figured out how to get it onto GitHub, and even how to perform a commit.

Keeping in mind that this is just the starter page--the class starts the sections on CSS and Javascript tomorrow--would folks be willing to give feedback?

I have no idea if the image of the kestrel is properly sized, and there is an Aria label within the tag for the link to the thesis that is not showing up, but I've been writing and reading HTML all morning at this point, and my ability to problemsolve is close to empty.

Thank you to everyone who offered a hover of kestrel images!

And, oh yeah, here is the link https://kestrell13.github.io/