Wreckage Located in Captain's Log for VI Players
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:18 pm
I only make this suggestion because I know in the past things like this have been added to the game so I'd assume it wouldn't involve that much development/coding work.
Currently when doing combat and mining you randomly get "wreckage located", and in the past there has been topics on how to make this more accessible and friendly to screen reader users. The options put forward weren't implemented because they weren't easily added or would make the combat pages load slower if I remember right. Using a screen reader it is a pain in the butt to navigate to where the notification for wreckage located would be every time, especially on the new combat loot collection screen.
What I'm suggesting is an addition to the "Captains log" for wreckage located, just for the wreckage and not for other fom ores and special third window loot while mining. the mining screen is still the same and checking that only involves a quick end of document and up arrow, but the combat loot window has changed making it a little bit more difficult. obviously it wouldn't hurt my feelings if fom ores were included but it wouldn't fit into the reason I'm suggesting this. currently randomly when you go through your ships store you see something, and go, hmm, no idea where that came from, and then view it and see what it is; this involves going through all your ship tabs to check what you have got after doing a combat session. this is also a pain in the butt because you don't know what you are even looking for. If there was a section in the captains log VI or other players could just go there, choose to view it and see exactly what they have found recently while doing combat.
The only reason I post this is because it makes the process of finding wreckage located items much more difficult for players who use a screen reader, and by it's self using a screen reader can be a big enough headache by it's self. I suppose this isn't much of a suggestion but rather a request, don't know if this would be beneficial to sighted players, but I think this could help VI players quite a bit, myself included; if it was worth the work to implement it.
Currently when doing combat and mining you randomly get "wreckage located", and in the past there has been topics on how to make this more accessible and friendly to screen reader users. The options put forward weren't implemented because they weren't easily added or would make the combat pages load slower if I remember right. Using a screen reader it is a pain in the butt to navigate to where the notification for wreckage located would be every time, especially on the new combat loot collection screen.
What I'm suggesting is an addition to the "Captains log" for wreckage located, just for the wreckage and not for other fom ores and special third window loot while mining. the mining screen is still the same and checking that only involves a quick end of document and up arrow, but the combat loot window has changed making it a little bit more difficult. obviously it wouldn't hurt my feelings if fom ores were included but it wouldn't fit into the reason I'm suggesting this. currently randomly when you go through your ships store you see something, and go, hmm, no idea where that came from, and then view it and see what it is; this involves going through all your ship tabs to check what you have got after doing a combat session. this is also a pain in the butt because you don't know what you are even looking for. If there was a section in the captains log VI or other players could just go there, choose to view it and see exactly what they have found recently while doing combat.
The only reason I post this is because it makes the process of finding wreckage located items much more difficult for players who use a screen reader, and by it's self using a screen reader can be a big enough headache by it's self. I suppose this isn't much of a suggestion but rather a request, don't know if this would be beneficial to sighted players, but I think this could help VI players quite a bit, myself included; if it was worth the work to implement it.