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Make Game Consoles Blind Accessible

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My goal is for manufacturers of game concels such as Xbox, Playstation, Wii, and Nintendo to make their consoles blind accessible. Today, game consoles have menus and dialog boxes to utilize their game consoles in different ways such as downloading apps or videos and games, and even playing those videos and games. Unfortunately, blind and visually impaired people are unable to interact with the menus and dialog boxes of game consoles because the text is printed on the screen. I would like manufacturers of these game consoles to please include a text to speech option so that the blind and visually impaired community can fully interact with these game consoles and participate along side their sighted peers. Any text to speech option would need to speak menus and dialog boxes, and also speak any text that a user may type. It would also have to speak any symbols that a user might type such as periods ".", commas ",", semi-colons ";", and other punctuation symbols. The speech option would also need to have the ability to be turned on and off. A blind or visually impaired person may not want the speech option to be active at all times. Finally, the speech option would need to speak text that is not part of menus and or dialog boxes, such as documents, or search results. It would need a review mode so that blind and visually impaired people can review the text on the screen if they were unable to understand it the first time the text speaks. The blind or visually impaired person would use the controller to move line by line, sentence by sentence, word by word, and character by character. Once they were done, the person would deactivate review mode. As the global population grows, so will the number of blind and visually impaired people. More and more blind people will want to participate in the same activities that their sighted peers enjoy such as gaming. A speech option included in game consoles would greatly enable the non-sighted community to participate with their sighted peers in fully utilizing a gaming console's features.

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