Blind chess player

Anyone member is a blind chess player?

Which is the better way to play chess for him?

How to select a match from the online chess list?
How to get the opponent move?
How to move?
How to select the moves tab and the get pgn button?

Is it possible to write the move textually?

and many, many other questions. Thx to all.

I don't think it's possible for them to play on this site without assistance. For what it's worth, there are softwares like JAWS to help vision impaired people use windows. It reads selected text, window titles, warnings, etc, but not sure how it could help with the whole site. For example, I don't see a possible way for any software to read aloud the move your opponent has played. 

The chess program Chessmaster is a lot easier for the vision impaired to play chess: it tells what move is played out loud, and you can type in the move you want to play. I'm not sure how it will tell you how much time you have left, though.

Try kchess...It's suppose to be completely through your key board,includes sound and prompts.The site is:www.arkangles/kchess/blind.Good luck with it and may your friend have fun.

                                                    Sincerily, Kenny

Hello friends,

he has already Jaws. He reads the web pages, email etc. but there is some difficulties with the mouse to do the move. I think, however, that Chess.com could improve slightly the online chess software to help for this disability.

For example, the following could be a manner to solve the problem:

chess.com sends to the player an email message with the PGN attached, when his opponent plays a move. It could be an option of the settings form the chess player can select or not;

the blind player reads the PGN (by Jaws) and replays the moves on the special chessboard he uses, analyzes the position and plays its move;

the (blind) player replies to the email attaching the PGN updated manually or by software (Kchess, Fritz etc.);

Chess.com reads automatically the PGN attached and uses it to update the chessboard.

It could be wonderfull to have the blind players able to play on Chess.com without human aid. I hope the Chess.com developers agree on this necessity.

Many thanks from my blind player friend and me.

I second that wish.

There is a chess program, invented by Charudatta Jadhav, a blind Indian renaissance man, in the Fall of 2006 called Talk64.  This program, developed under the auspices of the GTL Foundation, vocalizes the mioves in pgns, among other things. see: http://news.oneindia.in/2006/10/10/chess-software-talk-64-launched-1160498151.html for some details.

I have never been able to find it online, but if you go to the All India Chess Federation for the Blind, they have a link where you can request a copy.

It would be great if there could be a way blind people could play here. Our club has played in the League against the Braille club for many years, and I have lots of friends there. I just know they would love to play here.

Thanks to your tip, but also the chess software he uses (Fritz 11) vocalizes the moves the player or the program plays. To help him to move without the mouse against Fritz I've adapted a graphic tablet to this purpose, but this helps only customizing the tablet to the size of the chessboard on the screen.

The only think I ask to the Chess.com developers is to study a manner to send and to receive automatically the PGN to update the games.