Post #1648374

I don't do #games at all, but know that a ton of #blind people here do. I thought I would post, both to let people know about a possibility and to ask for advice. #8BitDo makes game controllers. Some of their controllers, the one I'm using is at https://www.8bitdo.com/micro/ have what they call keyboard mode. This is an excellent remote control for both the iPhone using VO and for NVDA. I can't type with it, but can certainly give the vast majority of commands, both in navigation and performing actions. This unit is the cheapest hardware remote control I know of, and works with both Windows and the iPhone. Obviously, nobody is going to enter the great American novel with it on the touch screen, but just as obviously, everything from playing to calling to NVDA remote is very easily usable. What isn't usable is the app to assign keyboard commands to the buttons. I was able to get a sighted person to do it, and it only needs to be done once, but even screen recognition is hopeless. As I said, I post because I thought people would want to know about these controllers if it wasn't obvious, but also because I haven't been able to find an accessible way to modify these button functions without the 8Bitdo app which is unusable with VO. Does anyone have any ideas? Boosts are very welcome.