{"id":196,"date":"2014-07-15T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:25:50","slug":"creating-switch-accessible-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/creating-switch-accessible-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating switch-accessible menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneswitch.org.uk\/\">One Switch<\/a> site, dedicated to creating accessible games for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Switch_access_scanning\">switch users,<\/a> has written an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/07\/pc-switch-accessible-menu.html\">how to create a switch-accessible menu.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A particularly interesting tip is &#8220;start one-switch scanning, then switch to two-switch scanning if the user operates a second switch&#8221;. This makes your program one- or two-switch agnostic &#8211; you are handling both use cases with a simple detection of a feature, rather than requiring another setting screen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some of the tips might be detrimental for screenreader users (such as the typical WebbIE users). For example, many switch users benefit from menus or lists that loop &#8211; when you go off the bottom of the list you start again at the top. But screenreader users generally like to know when they are at the end of a list (WebbIE programs tend to play a sound to help identify the beginning or end) because it provides orientation, since they can&#8217;t see the screen, and jumping up and down the list is easier for them (usually by pressing the initial key for a menu item &#8211; which is a reason to alphabetically-order your lists). The key thing is to identify your audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The One Switch site, dedicated to creating accessible games for switch users, has written an article about how to create a switch-accessible menu. A particularly interesting tip is &#8220;start one-switch scanning, then switch to two-switch scanning if the user operates a second switch&#8221;. This makes your program one- or two-switch agnostic &#8211; you are handling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/creating-switch-accessible-menus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creating switch-accessible menus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}