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starrychess4ever

When will Chess.com be truly inclusive to provide voice features in it's chess games for the sake of the visually blind?

Chess.com is many times more successful than Lichess but lacks the inclusivity that Lichess offers in it's board features to help the blind to play online chess.

If smaller Lichess can afford to provide such features, is there any reason for Chess com to hold back unless it's all about maximizing profits to the point of excluding the less fortunate blind players.

As the world population ages, there wud naturally be an increasing demography of people being wheelchair dependent or becoming visually impaired. Can Chess.com pay back to the community by sacrificing abit of it's bounty of blessings to provide special online features to allow the blind n physically disabled to play n enjoy chess at it's site?

justbefair
starrychess4ever wrote:

When will Chess.com be truly inclusive to provide voice features in it's chess games for the sake of the visually blind?

Chess.com is many times more successful than Lichess but lacks the inclusivity that Lichess offers in it's board features to help the blind to play online chess.

If smaller Lichess can afford to provide such features, is there any reason for Chess com to hold back unless it's all about maximizing profits to the point of excluding the less fortunate blind players.

As the world population ages, there wud naturally be an increasing demography of people being wheelchair dependent or becoming visually impaired. Can Chess.com pay back to the community by sacrificing abit of it's bounty of blessings to provide special online features to allow the blind n physically disabled to play n enjoy chess at it's site?

Chess.com announced features on its IOS app last year for visually impaired users

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-june-2023

starrychess4ever

I tried your mobile Android app but can't navigate to the voice settings enabling. Is there a link or name of menu to set for voice enabled chess?

Thanks.

Martin_Stahl
starrychess4ever wrote:

I tried your mobile Android app but can't navigate to the voice settings enabling. Is there a link or name of menu to set for voice enabled chess?

Thanks.

Android doesn't have that

Emilanton

Здравствуйте господа!У меня предложение,кто зарегистрировался в 2024 году,сводить их меж собой и половина нечистых на руку заблокируется.