doesn't work anymore I think, I ran into this too.

same, for me, oCR works, but review cursor does not. This causes issues. I already have my steam configured in the most unfuckified format, which is list. The others are ridiculous and you don't want them, because they'll either display info in a grid, or like a table with game title and info at the left, and a separate pane with graphics and more info to the right. Those make navigating a nightmare. Even with list though I have to fight with it with OCR, because it will want to show parts of the left column, the title, and then parts of the right column, which has a cloud graphic for those games that use cloud sync for storing save data and the status, like installed, downloading, not installed, etc. So its more a sort of up and down the field trying to hit the right game. Fucking PITA!

This problem is fixable.

You need to go to Steam options and change the font scaling option to default, and then you can change the no direct write switch in the same place.

Actually, if you already have the command in your Steam properties for the desktop icon, once Steam restarts after changing that option, your review curser should work.

HTH.

It's doable, its just gonna suck majorly.

@11
This is useful to know, however the option that Post 8 refers to doesn't seem to exist in this file, unless it's just really difficult to find and I've missed it completely.

Any help on this is appreciated.

@13, that is the exact attitude that makes the sited community dislike, if not outright hate, blind people; this attitude of "company's must make their products accessible or else" and other nonsense. No company has to make anything -- yes, anything -- accessible unless required by law, such as if the product is for employment, education, a public service (i.e. road signs), etc. A consumer product, like Steam or the microwave in your house, does not need to be made accessible. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. The reason Steam doesn't do that is for the simple reason of profit. We pose no true benefit to them, so they see no reason to do it. It would gain them nothing. And before you say that we're a large amount of people, keep in mind that we're only about 40-thousand something people, if not slightly less. 40-thousand something people is pretty much no profit for them. Please get rid of that outrageously dumb attitude about how *everything under the sun* should be accessible or you won't use it. Its extremely stupid and (I'd even say) quite immature.

@15, I get that. But the way you all who have "contacted" them on this issue is only making the problem worse. You don't demand accessibility, just like you don't demand for a 250000-dollar car, or a 500000-dollar luxury mansion. You ask for it. And for vehicles and homes, you buy them. But when it comes to accessibility, you never demand shit. Never. Not even in "extenuating circumstances". You ask for it. And if you don't get it? Too bad, deal with it. You don't like that? Tough, its life. Blind organizations have this habit of demanding everything when it comes to blind people. And since organizations like the NfB are supposed to "represent the blind community as a hole," it gives the entire community a bad light. IMO the NFB should be shut down, if not completely rebuilt from the ground up by honorable and trustworthy individuals who actually know how to play the game known as life rather than acting like arrogant pricks. But that's not the point I'm trying to make here. I get that you were being honest, I really do, but don't demand anything when you contact a business. Never. Its rude, its disrespectful, and it makes you look stupid. If you want a business to do something for you, you ask for it, kindly and (possibly) professionally. I say "professionally" because you will earn far more respect from the people running that business if you ask things professionally than if you hadn't. And its been clear for years now that valve doesn't care about accessibility at the moment, and no disabilities act or law is going to help you in this. They've made their decision, now you deal with it. If they want to add accessibility, they'll add accessibility on their own terms. If they want blind people to test accessibility for their products, it'll most likely be them who sends out the feelers, not you.

I... would not mess with those manually. I just had a brief skim and it seems like the files are very dependent on a looooooooooooooooooot of factors. And that all the data is in the cloud, or so it seems.

@14 etc it is legally required. The steam client contains communications functionality. under legislation called CVAA it is a legal requirement for that communications functionality and any interface used to navigate to or operate that functionality to be accessible to people with no vision at all. Steam is bound by exactly the same laws and requirements as an Xbox, a PlayStation or an iPhone, meaning the compliance deadline for it to be accessible was October 2015. That's following a five year period to implement it, the law was signed in in 2010. Products launched prior to Oct 2015 are exempt, unless they've had significant updates since, which steam has.

Games themselves are covered too. The compliance deadline for in-game communications functionality and any UI used to navigate to or operate it is any game launched or significantly updated after Jan 1st 2019.

"Products launched prior to Oct 2015 are exempt, unless they've had significant updates since, which steam has."

The point is that Austingrace is not in the wrong by demanding that someone stops breaking the law. Your legally protected human rights being infringed isn't something that you should have to ask politely for and then if nothing happens just accept it.

Ethin I'm not quoting research I just did. I'm pretty intimately familiar with CVAA already, I don't need to go give the full text yet another read, I've done that enough already over the past five years or so.

You've really got the wrong end of the stick here I'm several ways. Such us understandable enough on your first read-through, it is some pretty heavy going stuff.

CVAA explicitly applies to the games industry. It divides the games industry into three buckets; consoles, gameplay and distribution networks, and games software.

Because none of those three are primarily about communication, the FCC is able to, at it's own discretion, grant temporary waivers instead of them all having to be compliant in 2012 like most industries were.

The waivers for consoles and networks expired in October 2015. The waiver for games expires on December 31st 2018. Google ”CVAA games waiver" for more info.

Steam is a gameplay and distribution network. Therefore its waiver expired in 2015.

No one has the ability to excuse themselves on the basis of it not being achievable. How it works is that you build a case for inachievability, which is based primarily on affordability (and obviously cost to implement Vs Valve's bank balance is pretty cut and dry - https://www.pcgamer.com/market-data-fir … st-year/), and then submits that request to the FCC. It is then the FCC, not the service provider, who decides if it is achievable. You can see that in what you pasted to me - "as determinable by the commission". "The commission" refers to the FCC, the federal communications commission.

A strong factor in the FCC's decision making is whether anyone else has already done it. No one can argue to the FCC that making windows software accessible is inachievable, because many others have already done it. As of course steam had more than enough money to be able to do it, even a ground up rewrite of their UI would be a tiny drop in the ocean of Valve's finances.

So no, OCR does not cover it, because they're pretty solutions only kick in if the inachievability criteria is satisfied.

I sent you a link in the EA thread to the talk by Karen Peltz Strauss. Watching that talk will inform you about how it relates to Steam too.