Microsoft flight simulator and accessibility for blind gamers

Please access How to maintain and update Microsoft Flight Simulator? – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com) to know more about what can be done about your situation. If the issue still persists, it would be best to submit a request in the same website linked (top of the page) for further assistance.

You should definitely try to contact Bryce Johnson, the Inclusive Lead at Microsoft, he worked with development of the Xbox Adaptive Controller, and tweets a lot about how games use accessibility functions to allow gamers with handicaps to enjoy the games.

You might contact him via Twitter at https://twitter.com/brycej and make him aware of your needs in the upcoming Flight Simulator.

Also contact SightlessKombat https://twitter.com/sightlessKombat, as he also influenced the accessibility functions for Gears 5 and other Microsoft Games.

I would also like to point out that I am another blind flight simmer.

I have had Numerus ups and downs while using FS tramp. Part of my problem, is not being able to fly a cid and a star properly with the current ATC add-ons. As mentioned above, being able to do full checklists, as well as fly
some of the pay-ware aircraft. Another big problem for me is landing, particularly on vat sim flights. Sometimes FS tramp will for whatever the case may be, take me on a path, that my controler does not want me to fly. The end result, is that I miss the glideslope
and localizer and land in the middle of nowhere.

I am not asking for an auto landing feature, such as in FSX pilot, but having access to the list of cids and stars and approaches without having to use 3rd party software would be amazing!

Looking forward to seeing the results!

I think this is an amazing idea and did not know that these add-ons existed. I support this idea and hope that they do make this great looking game more accessible to blind players! Best of luck and it's great to hear that this is a thriving community.

Hello,

I am also a blind flight sim user, and the developer of one of the add-ons that many in our community use.

For anyone interested, the add-on is called Talking Flight Monitor (TFM), and can be found at:

http://www.github.com/jfayre/talking-flight-monitor

I just want to agree with what others have said. It would be amazing to hear about the work that MS is doing to make FS2020 accessible. Although I've loved developing this free add-on, I would love to have it rendered obsolete due to accessibility features
native to the sim.