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Tota11ylost ― the escape game that aims to offer you an immersive experience, raising your awareness of the challenges faced by people with digital disabilities

You will be immersed in a scenario, in which you will play as a character with different deficiencies with each new step taken. You will have to solve the puzzles and challenges one by one, overcome obstacles related to accessibility and ergonomics to advance in the game. It’s up to you to get out of it, alone or in a group, against these difficulties!

The game is available in English, French and Spanish, and the source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Tota11ylost) under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.

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[–] Kissaki 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

The post link goes to the news.

The GitHub repo has a link to the site https://orange-opensource.github.io/Tota11ylost/

top right has a language menu with English, Spanish, French

Seems like that's the full thing. Dunno what you mean by demo?

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

https://orange-opensource.github.io/Tota11ylost/ shows no language menu for me.

I meant demo as in the the project being hosted for others to see and use vs. the source files that are self-hostable.

[–] Kissaki 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, the language links are JavaScript links, not href/URL links, so I can't link them. I don't even see JS event handlers on the individual items. lol

Maybe that's the first "digital disability escape game" challenge? /s

[–] pylapp 1 points 3 months ago

Feel free to report a bug on their GitHub repository ; the web site must provide somehow French, English and Spanish content.

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