Hey Pelantas.
As a Nintendo Switch user myself, I unfortunately can't give any information about visual presentations as I am totally blind, however I can say that every time I've needed sighted assistance, they seemed to be able to read it, even at the low brightness setting I have it on, which can be increased or decreased to your liking .
Every time you launch a game, the most recent game icon will be brought to the front, unless there is a way of keeping the games in order which I don't know about, but I've managed with this, and as a sighted user, you should have no trouble with the layout
As for games, Dragon Ball Fighter Z is quite accessible, not including the story mode which is like a tile layout I don't understand. :d.
Apart from that, I don't really go for games like Smash Bros and stuff because it aint my cup of tea, however I'm sure you will find a game suitable for you, as there is a big variety of Mario games to choose from that have been ported to the switch, surprise surprise! :d.
I'm sorry my advice hasn't been as positive as I would of liked it to be, but at least I gave you all the info I had, better take advice you won't regret rather spending 250£GBP/300$USD on something you can't or won't play with.

Ah OK, my mistake, sorry for misunderstanding.
As I said though, brightness is key, therefore I think you may want to higher your brightness so the app seeing AI has a better chance of reading your screen for you.
I wish you look in trying, and hope you find what your looking for in the Nintendo switch

Hi all,

Well i did it, i did put on the shoess of courage, and i did order myself a switch with let's go pikachu. I also created a my Nintendo account already, but are there any specific steps to keep in mind while setting up the console? I know i can get some Eyesight to help me with this, but i am also curious to knjow on what i should expect while setting up the system

Greetz mike

Re: brightness, I'm not sure how the settings work these days, but I own a Sega Nomad, a handheld from the 90s that plays Genesis games, and its maximum brightness was a useless blur. It's possible that devices since then have set the maximum somewhere more useful, but if you find that Seeing AI can't read it at max brightness, maybe try something like 75-90%?

Hi,

@aaron,

I hope i can be of any use with my answers
But i think you can find something on youtube, i hope at least, i am currently watching a lets play about lets play pikachu, but that doesn't tell you anything about the switch interface itself. I do know at least, that the menu's don't wrap in the console, so making counting rather easy and correcting mistakes, jsut navigate back upward and count again. Each pictogram does have it's own sound, so you can know on what you click, and i do believe that going for the physical cardridges is the more easy way, cause the list of recently played games can get rather extensive when you all have them in digital format, i make a reference to the way on how playstation does this. Not very handy to work with at least.

I hope this answers did help you a little bit

Greetz Mike

Hi.
Wow. Thanks for all this awesome information. I have read this topic with huge interest.
So, regarding digital games: Sounds like the Switch have the same issue as the Playstation 4 with the reason games list which changes each time you launch a game.
Does it have a games library where it might be easier to find the game you wanna play?
Is the Nintendo store as accessible as the Playstation and Microsoft store through the website? Can you check lots of online stuff as well like achievements, add friends, chat etc. from the Nintendo website?

This is some pretty cool information!  I've always wondered if anyone here has had any success with the switch.  I definitely wouldn't mind checking one out if there's some usability. It's somewhat off topic, but I always thought it was pretty cool how you could create a Nintendo avatar that can even be played in some games. I wonder if there would be some way to go about an audio equivalent? Hmm...

The menus are very linear in nature, with only one column.
Here is a rough guide from what I remember, to be edited if need be:
When you boot up the game, you must press L and R on the controller that Player One is using. In the the top menu, your first option is single player, followed by local multiplayer, followed by online,.
Once you enter the single player, you are presented with a menu ! includes the main modes:
Grand Prix,
Vs.
Time Trial,
And Battle mode.
When entering into the Grand Prix mode, note that the menus do wrap. The opq for speed are 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, Mirror, and 200cc.
In regards to smart steering, it is always on, except in time trials, where (because it is based on skill), you can not turn it on. I hope that helped.

Hmmm really tenis ases is accessible? how? Do you have to turn on somethin special like on mario kart? Or only based in sound.

In my case, for portability and in the case of loose the console, I choose the digital way, I only have Mario odisey in cartridge (because was my first game) but all of the other games are digital.
My unique problem is that when I want choose a game that isn't resently played, I have to waste some time, triing picking the differents games, to finally get the game that I want.

Games that I know that a blind person can be funny with them obviously is Super smash, dragon ball fighterz, pokken tournament, all the naruto ninja revolution serie, the two street fighters, the upcoming mortal kombat 11, and well, reading the forum, lets go, and mario kart, can be good options; I only have kart for wii u, but If works the auto steerin option, sounds good to get it.

A, oter game that can you play with a friend, is Diablo III. If your friend is sighted, you can put your character to follow them, so your player is automatically following the movement (in a range) of your friend to go to the diferent places, but you can fight, use skills and all of other stuf.

Thanks for the info!

So, a small sort option can be good, but.... well, isn't a grat problem really.

Pelantas, the sthat steering is on by default.  You also use the tiny + and — buttons on the top of each JoyCon.
Also, I completely forgot to mention ARMS, which while being in 3D, can be played with sound alone.

Hi,

@Thanks a lot for pointing that out to me, i already was wondering on why i wasn't bumping into walls

But do you know if smartsteering can be used in the online play as well? I mean, if it is allowed then i really want to consider a nintendo membership for online play at some point

Greetz mike

Is there any chance that someone might be able to do an audio review/demo of the Switch?