@Computergamer yes, I'm 100% blind. and yes, I want to help as much I can to give some ideas. I'm not an accesibility consultant my self, but I participated and helped guide dev on the private beta for the battlegrounds mode in hearthstone along few more people, before the oficial launch

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Why make this private when this is an open source project? I just don’t get it.

Probably because I imagine the state they're in right now is still a pretty barebones one and they don't want to be dealing with hundreds of impatient people or field needless questions for things that aren't even ready yet.

They specifically said "progress is going well". That doesn't necessarily mean it's in any real playable state yet.
I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.

I'll go a step further here, actually.

Gamers have different skill levels, and this project is going to be absolutely huge. Frankly, a team like this needs to be made up primarily of people who know what they're doing.
I'm not speaking on behalf of this team, nor of its specific choices of who is and is not allowed in right now. That said, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Seventy testers are not necessarily better than seven testers; in fact, they may be much, much worse, depending on the stage of development that has been reached.

I would have loved to have been involved with this project. I can't code, but I know Ocarina of Time fairly well and have a decent track record as a beta tester. But for now, that's not on the table, and that's okay.

My advice: be patient, and wait for more news to arrive. If this pans out, it will be well worth the wait.

Right. And what I'm saying is that too many cooks can spoil the broth. Open source and open season are two very, very different things. Most of the original work is going to be code-based, I suspect. Once it becomes stable-ish and workable, that's probably when you will see things open up. Again, not speaking for the team here, but that sort of approach would be consistent with what I've seen in the past on other projects.

I've listened to that, and it's fucking amazing. Well, I thought it was, anyway. Carries on a little bit in places, but it's extremely well put together in most respects.

Part of the reason for the embargo is because they plan to publish a video detailing all of the accessibility features that are being worked on. They really are working very hard on this, and they want to be the ones to receive the publicity/ credit for it, which I think is perfectly understandable and fair.
Before the embargo was imposed, I was able to do a livestream where I showed off what was already implemented. This version was not in a playable state, but I was able to make a bit of progress with the incomplete implementation.
Since there is now an embargo in effect I won't be doing any more streams until it's lifted, but since I did the stream and it's already public I don't see any harm in dropping it here.
Please don't try to join the group or re-post the stream anywhere. It will remain on Twitch until the VOD expires, and I'll upload it to Youtube sometime in the future when the embargo is lifted.
The link for now is:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1463258725

I personally wasn't a huge fan of the text sound either, which I know was something that was mentioned in the stream. I did also find the aiming camera noise really jarring, but I understand this is obviously still very early stuff and all that is subject to change.

Hi all! I have a update for you. So this friday, may 13th, there was a direct for ship of harkinian, which is the name for the pc port of ocarina of time, and during the direct, they gave the first look at the accessibility features. So now it is public and i am now allowed to tell you more. So what features are there currently? Well, all text in the game, which include menu items and dialogue and file select menu will be read using tts. There will be wall sounds indicating where walls are. You also have ledge sounds which tells you if you are heading towards a ledge or gap to jump or fall off. There are sounds for aiming which helps you find targets to shoot. We also have a sound that indicate if things are under you while swimming. Your fairy partner Navi tells you when you are in front of things to interact with like doors, chests and crawlspaces. We also has a object viewer which lets yo know what object are around you. This is done by pressing cup button and turning around. Tts will read all objects around you. When you pause the game, tts will tell you your current amount of rupees, hearts and magic by pressing the dpad down, up and left. Those are the features so far. There will be more features added further ahead like knowing where climable walls are, knowing where lit and unlit torches are, knowing if you are in shallow or deep water, if you are walking on flat surface or going up slopes and much more. Keep in mind that we who are working on this are in early stages. Once all features are done, they will be implemented in the main release and you will get access to them as a setting in a configuration file called cvar. That is all the details i can think of. Thanks for your patience.

man, this is a very  wonderful