SO you all like false hope and broken dreams... noted. OK yes, it'll be accessible. The updates that are planned will do the trick and I think they will have it ready by end of this year.

I don't agree. Until you've punched wood, dug underground, built a house, fended off creepers, spiders, zombies, skeletons, endermen and so forth, you can't understand the nature of this problem.

Prove that you understand.

O I don't care about specific recipes, if people understand, show that they do by giving an explanation of what would need to be done to make the game fully accessible.

let's just see then. sure, it will be accessible. it will only take,, oh, I don't know, 5, 10 years?
but these are my thoughts. you don't think I wouldn't like to play mc with my brothers and cousin?
we can't see the future. let's just wait and see.

@28, Sorry, but this just doesn't hold. Yes, colors are abstract, but code can be extremely abstract too. We can't get our hands on the MC source code, so we don't even know where to begin. So, yes, we have a very, very abstract view of the game from a players POV, which is no help to us.
We don't say MC won't ever be accessible because we're being cynical; we say it because we know it to be true. If you know how to make MC fully accessible to those with no vision or no useful vision, please, kindly educate us less-educated individuals so that we may hop aboard your bandwagon.

Agreed with number 38!! Look at Playstation 5, so much accessibility improvement.

38-39, The only way MC would be fully accessible would be for it to be completely rewritten. To add accessibility in now would be extremely difficult and I doubt you could just do it with a mod. MC was never made with accessibility in mind. And until its completely rewritten with that in mind, we will never be able to fully enjoy the experience. Its not as simple as "add a mod here, a mod there, and boom, a fully immersive and accessible experience to people who are totally blind". I really don't think either of you understand just what you and your cohorts are proposing. The expenditure that MS would need would probably range in the millions of dollars, at minimum. The income they would reclaim because of totally blind players would not make up that loss, and therefore they see no need to actually do it, because the financial loss would outweigh the gain. Not to mention the amount of research required, too. Your talking about a massive overhaul of the entire game. Which is why, again, MS is not going to do it, along with any other company -- the loss that they would suffer would make it not worth the time and effort required.

We're still waiting for all y'all who are saying folks like Grannycheese, Ethin, Connor and myself are overly negative to give us a response.

@44, Lets deconstruct your post:
1. The negativity is perfectly reasonable. The default view of "Its unlikely to happen" is very logical given the financial cost. Yes, the menus are accessible, but that's nowhere near enough.
2. A rewrite is required. As a developer myself, I can tell you that its highly unlikely that a few mods will make the entire game 100-percent accessible, if even 50-percent. And on systems where mods cannot be used -- such as on consoles -- you would definitely need a rewrite in that instance.
3. I guarantee that if the developers saw this negativity they would undoubtedly agree with what people like me are saying. There is a point where optimism can only get you so far. Do we wish to play MC? Yes. Does that mean that our desire to do so will make it happen? Not really. We can bloat the game with all the mods in the universe, but what about those areas where mods aren't available? What about those areas of the game where mods can't actually do anything? The developers of the game would need to pick up that slack, and those areas may be a lot more than we initially think.
Skepticism in this instance is warranted. Just because menus are accessible and we can send chat messages doesn't suddenly mean the developers are going to make the entire game accessible. Its like saying "Oh, the guys who work on Halo MCC have made the menus and chat messages accessible, so they're obviously going to make the entire game accessible". Sorry, but that's not a valid deduction. A lot goes into making a game fully accessible to people with disabilities, and if a game isn't initially written with that process in mind, when it comes time to actually do it its about 200-times harder than it would be if the game had been written with it in mind.
4. That one sentence -- "Sometimes the American blind community can be a little strange after all" -- is quite a presumption. How do you know that all of us who are feeling this negativity, this doubt, are American?
5. Yes, Xbox is accessible. Pokymon Crystal is accessible. That does not mean you can make a presumption that *every game* will suddenly become accessible. Nor does it mean that MC will, either.
Edit: would just like to add that this default view of negativity is warranted not just because of financial/rewrite considerations but because history has aptly demonstrated, repeatedly, the folly of hoping that a game will be made accessible -- or that anything will be made by a big corporation with the disabled in mind. A few times it has happened, but the overwhelming amount of evidence is still there, and there's too little evidence to suggest that times are truly changing for the better for us. Corporations will most likely do what they must because the law requires them to, not out of any sense of obligation towards people with disabilities, making their efforts lackluster at best. MS is an exception to this, but I don't think MS is going to expend huge amounts of money to rewrite Minecraft just for blind people.

Okay.

I'm becoming increasingly irritated by the tone of some of the messages in this thread, so here is a list of practical suggestions to make the game more accessible.

1. Indication of what block is being looked at, which already exists.
2. A method to determine what's in front of you, so you don't walk off into air. This might already exist too, I believe I saw something like it at some point.
3. Access to the in-game crafting reference and a way to tell where things need to be placed for that.
4. An indication of what's under the cursor for selection purposes.
5. Some more keyboard commands.
6. Support for identifying creatures and where they're coming from.

Pretty much everything except the last would make the game decently playable in creative mode. It's not 100% accessible, but it's more than enough to have fun.

Just figured I'd come in and give my 2 cents.
I don't have confidence that Mine Craft will ever be made fully accessible for the simple reason that it's gotten so massive at this point and it's simply not worth it to go through all that code to make the game accessible. However, that doesn't mean that it's impossible to make it accessible. I firmly believe that everything in this world could potentially be made accessible, but I also believe that it might not always be worth tackling. Assuming the entire world miraculously knew about the blind community and that we were capable of doing damn near anything ever since the start of time, Mine Craft would have been fully accessible from the start, and for that matter, so would everything else. I guess my point is, while I don't think the developers are going to make the game fully accessible, it's certainly a lot of fun to think they would and I'd love to be proven wrong.
As I said before, I don't personally believe it's going to happen. Nevertheless, while it might be true, that's negative talk. I'm not saying you shouldn't be skeptical, of course. What I am saying is, there's a healthy balance between optimism and skepticism, and most of you either swing heavily to one side or the other. There's a way to have this discussion without tearing each other’s heads off. Allow me to demonstrate using the first 8 posts.

There might be some errors I made in writing style or what have you, but I think everyone sees the general picture here. A lot of things in this discussion would remain exactly the same, but the atmosphere would be so much friendlier. It's really not too hard to have a civil discussion while expressing your point of view, guys. If it is too hard to remain civil while expressing yourself, take a breather, go grab a glass of tea or whatever beverage suits your fancy, and just scroll to another topic. Trust me, it'll help you just as much as it does the members of the discussion.