Hi All, Have a look at this page: http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/03/07/blind-player-ben-shaw-on-raiding-and-wow-for-the-sightless/
I read this article about a blind gamer playing world of warcraft using a set of macros and commands by creating add-ons for the game. It uses simple text editor and on the mac, a lot of commands exist in terminal for opening wow with console mode etc. The scripting language doesn't seem too hard to learn and the wow API seems to have everything required for parsing text and streaming sets of variables to figure out what to do. Here are some example scripts or add-ons I wanted to write for blind wow access: 1-chat frame announcements using either voice over or another tts solution. 2-inventory, magic and character profile information frames. These use standard xml layouts so I'm guessing that it can work fine with some html coding to pass arguments back and forth from in game frame to an external html page keeping tabs of information and perhaps controllable from the page back into the game 3-orientation and guidance helpers: there is a fairly decent 3D audio in world of warcraft. Perhaps some of the lock in systems wow uses can be exploited to get a player vs player positional stream from which particular sounds could be produced. The web audio API is very good and fast at doing this. Again, using the external window method, positional information for one's player against selected ennemy can be created. 4-inventory or pouch: a macro or key binding to open the sachel can theoretically open a new frame in the external page at which point using the trackpad we can navigate through the items, changing their positions or blending items such as reagents for magic and spells. 5-use a mouse position tracking and positioning script with terminal to control positioning from within the external page to reflect in game. And so many other methods available to make playing wow somewhat of a possibility? In any case, has anyone tried world of warcraft like that guy? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
