{"id":3483,"date":"2019-06-14T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:59:32","slug":"accessible-crosswords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3483\/accessible-crosswords","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Crosswords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I set out to make my Mac crossword app, <a href=\"http:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blackink\/\">Black Ink<\/a>, accessible to VoiceOver users. I failed. The assistive technology on macOS at the time simply did not seem up to the task for mapping the complex, two-dimensional, nested hierarchy of a crossword puzzle into a form that could be meaningfully conveyed over VoiceOver.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I look forward to finishing up <a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/3311\/black-ink-2-public-beta\">Black Ink 2.0<\/a>, I am encouraged to give it another try. VoiceOver has improved dramatically and I am optimistic that I&#8217;ll be able to ship this major update of the app with features that make it accessible to all.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do this alone. I need to know how the ideal accessible crossword app would behave, and to know that, I need advice from experienced VoiceOver users. If you or somebody you know is a Mac VoiceOver user who would enjoy helping me design the accessible interface to Black Ink, please consider joining the Red Sweater Slack so we can collaborate on this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/beta\/slack.php\">Join the Red Sweater Slack Community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have some vague ideas of how to accomplish this but I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing from folks who are keenly aware of just how such an app should behave. After you join the Slack, please join me in the #accessibility channel. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I set out to make my Mac crossword app, Black Ink, accessible to VoiceOver users. I failed. The assistive technology on macOS at the time simply did not seem up to the task for mapping the complex, two-dimensional, nested hierarchy of a crossword puzzle into a form that could be meaningfully conveyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-blackink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}