Accessibility Options (not Just Pc...)

I would recommend making the sand a toggle button instead of a hold down feature. Or have an option to toggle this and any other controls that require continuous long button presses (can’t think of any others tbh). This would require the button notifications on the right of the screen to indicate on and off for the sand (and any other controls).

 

It actually could be. I literally know people who cannot distinguish some purples and greens. When the correct track for your intended path is a shade of green and the highlight of which tracks the points are set to is in purple, this could make it hard to see for people with certain colour differentiation issues.

 

I got the artistic talents of a slug. It's funny that on my 4k TV I see these images with text all the time, especially on Netflix or Prime where you flick through the thumbnails for something to watch but on my 4k monitor not so much, i'll keep on looking but as I say you can see examples on Netflix on a TV.

 

We have the yellow exclamation mark in the hud, but how about using the new prompts area (used for such as pzb safe to release, etc), to tell people with hearing problems which issue is occurring.

Is it emergency brake, a Sifa issue, dsd, or aws alarm? They’re all bundled into the one exclamation mark making the right action hard to distinguish for anyone not able to use the sound of the game. In addition a good number of people like to try to drive without the speedo hud, so having the note appear in the top corner wouldn’t disrupt that aim too much.

 

Had this on Clinchfield when I blew out the PCS, think it was the SD40. Yellow exclamation but zero prompts on how to fix it. Luckily my Run 8 training came to the fore - brake into Suppression, Reverser to Neutral plus the mode selector to "Off" oh and I might have reset the brake valve too.

Point relevant to this thread is that could it be possible to incorporate a one press recovery command (as an option) when this occurs, in the same way in Run 8 you click on the lead engine then from the dialogue box click the Auto CB, Auto AB buttons which puts everything right. Similarly when taking over a train, something akin to the old FS autostart (Ctrl-E) wouldn't go amiss to set the cab ready to drive.

 

Hi Matt,

First off, thank you for your considerations for those of us who must improvise to get the most from our gaming experiences! I've never seen a game developer openly discuss this. Although I'm sure many other developers do consider disabilities when producing games, it is sometimes frustratingly apparent that others do not. I now consider DTG leaders in this idea, so I tip my hat to you all.

I had a spinal cord injury 30 years ago which has left me with only one good hand. For this reason, the Train Sim line of products has become my favorite genre, just due to the ease of game play on a hardware level. One suggestion I would make would be to incorporate native Track-IR support for TSW3. While not necessary for gameplay, it certainly enhances the game tremendously. Without head tracking, when walking around the train and through stations, etc. I must point the mouse in a direction, walk until I need to turn, stop walking, reposition the mouse, then continue because my walking hand and my mousing hand are the same. I am now using FreePIE in order to experience TrackIR and it makes the game so much easier to play and MUCH more enjoyable! Looking around the cab of the locos is wonderful, and being able to walk around in a steady movement is more realistic now and much less frustrating The downside of FreePIE is that you only get 4 degrees of head movement and it sometimes fails during gameplay. Native support within the sim would be great for people like me.

best regards,
Stephen

PS ~ I don't know what you did to the colors in TSW3, but THANK YOU for fixing the signal lights! I am colorblind and have never really been able to distinguish the red/yellow/green lights before. Now in TSW3 I can clearly tell what the next signal is and it's wonderful. That alone was worth the upgrade from TSW2 to TSW3 for me. Great work.

 

Wow, thanks! I'll mess around in there today and see if I can't get things working now!!

 

The last time I tried Trackir it went all over the place and this was after configuring it and listening to advice.

 

I've been thinking, would it perhaps be an idea to have ALL in-cab control TOOLTIPS (the ones you see when you hover your cursor over the button/lever) show up with a simple keypress? Too often I've been looking for that one button, but no clue where it is hidden. Some buttons are really at places you don't expect them, and I think a feature like this could make things a little easier.

 

If you play on a PC, using a mouse without a middle button (scroller) you cannot zoom in using a keyboard.

 

DTG Matt I have a request which is part accessibility and part bug. The accessibility part is related to the camera; I use controller on PS5 and due to mildly shaky hands, find it very difficult to focus the cursor on some of the tiny buttons even in zoomed mode - this is due to the sensitivity of the camera being the same for all cameras across the board, zoomed in or not, external camera etc. It would be great to have a secondary sensitivity control specifically for zoomed or in-cab that is seperate from the one used for everything else

This ties in with the bug part - if i am sat down as a passenger on any route on any train, if i then activate any external camera the sensitivity is through the roof. Specifically I have sensitivity set at default 5, but in this scenario it acts like it is in sensitivity 10. The normal first person view operates correctly

 

Leave the text on the screen until the player dismiss it
I mean the text that appears in scenarios, so we do not need to exit the simulation to get the full text in the message log, which immensely break the flow of the game. You can use something like press any key/mouse button (controller button) to dismiss, or show the next part of the message

I can be a very fast reader at times, and then again sometime for no reason it can take me minutes to read a single line