Great submission!

First, I owe you an apology. When we first received your submission, there was some healthy debate in our Discord server over its content. I suggested to our community members that they reach out and share their honest feedback. I’m sorry if this felt like a brigade or created unnecessary stress for you. We deeply appreciate newcomers who bring fresh energy and diversity to this community. And I’m thankful that you took this risk—even if it’s not one that I would personally take.

That said, I enjoyed the procedural sound design a ton! I could imagine the music being more adaptive based on your patience, independence, and sass? The main tool that I reach for is a little bit of amplitude modulation, to make longer drones that ebb and flow, which leads into other cool things with LFOs like modulating the pan or filter detune.

The writing was often witty as well, making me laugh no matter how awkward or disappointing the realistic situations felt. I was dubbed THE DIPLOMAT.

Here are some observations when using NVDA and enabling screen reader mode:

• Consider using role="application" on the <body> element so the screen reader knows that the arrow keys and S and H are handled by your application. Otherwise, they try to navigate around the page without changing focus mode via NVDA+Space.
• On the settings screen, there are a few enhancements that might be made. The toggles for screen reader or high contrast modes aren’t accessible with the arrow keys. They should also respond to pressing Space. When toggling them, they abruptly change focus to and read aloud the entire settings screen. And they might benefit from using role="switch" and aria-checked to indicate their state. Otherwise, an <input type="checkbox"> for these might be the simplest option.
• A similar behavior happens when making choices in the game. When refocusing the game container, its aria-label gets read aloud each time, creating unnecessary noise. I might also avoid auto-focusing the first choice, because it gets read aloud twice as part of the live region as well.
• It can be a bit slow when you’re used to reading fast. I imagine this is designed around the speed of the built-in screen reader. There aren’t great solutions for this on the web without rethinking some fundamental things of the interface, and I don’t think it’s super important for you to even address here.

Those observations aside, I do find that this is well-polished and well-implemented, especially for an HTML game. Submissions like these are precisely why I advocate using HTML for accessible games. Nice work!

Woah, very risky concept! I do feel like you tried to really understand how is the real life as a blind person in a respectful way. Showing how's one of the most frustrating days and  also adding sarcasm. You bought me with this last.  I am not blind and I suppose all we had our own presumptions, so I can't say how accurate is this game.  But I can say that you make me think about this subject, and I want to congratulate you to all the effort you put doing this game. I hope you can still making games like this where you do your research and you made it with care.

Thank you so much for this submission. I really know a few of these situations since i have also had these happen to me in my life, since i am blind myself and use cane to walk. I know people have good intentions but sometimes the message can be misunderstood. I really liked how you could be sassy in the game. I had some fun with the different options. So once again, tahnks for participating and making this.

Congrats on the submission!

Pure story games aren't always my jam, but I really enjoyed all the different sound effects throughout the game, that made the world feel more immersive. Like others, I think I would have enjoyed more options for dialog responses, but overall I think it was good. 

I think the one thing that would have made it feel more like a game would have been to include / read out the stats (Patience / Independence / Sass) as you make actions, or include that in each of the options descriptions.

Thanks again for participating and building something for the jam ❤️ 

I heard this was a bit of a controversial submission, but I enjoyed it for the most part. I think I agree that some more character-building and story circumstances that are not about blindness would be a bit nice.

I did feel very inspired by this game, as you might see in my VOD that I rambled for minutes and minutes on end about the ideas it sparked on me. I had a lot of thoughts about my experiences as an accessibility consultant and a friend of blind people, as well as relating to cringey experiences I may as well have had.

I kinda wish that I had more words to give for the review, but I have used up my energy rambling on stream. I think it would be nice to have the story feature more ‘normal’ good situations, and more opportunities to ask for help, ignore, be sassy, etc. For example, maybe at the start of the day you have more energy to educate people, but at the end of the day, if you burned out a loud, you no longer have as much energy to explain things and maybe your responses are a bit more rude etc. This would be an interesting concept that’s also about energy management and the spoon theory, because it’d also show that you don’t always have energy to report problems when you find things aren’t accessible.

I did find a strange this, when I asked Janet for help, she didn’t actually help me learn the environment upstairs. I think that was the only plothole.

Also that bug I’d mentioned? It turns out you’re just having TTS irregardless of whether I have a screen reader on or not. When I tried playing with NVDA and I was hearing the TTS going at the same time. So I had to turn it off.

That was an experience, tiring but interesting, worth fine tuning (with blind consultants/writers as well) because it’s a lot of food for thought and discussion that could be used for accessibility training circumstances. That’s my opinion.

VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2715373474