Accessible Solitaire

The Accessible Solitaire app is a work in-progress, and there are many fixes and improvements that need to be made to it. Work on these fixes is on-going, and all being well the quality of the app will improve over time.

Below are some of the known issues with the app. If you’re hitting other issues not listed here, please do let me know.

• In the Pyramid and Tri Peaks games, after a card has been moved, it takes a couple of seconds for VoiceOver to settle. This means if you’re moving VoiceOver around immediately after the move, it might jump somewhere unexpected, and you’ll need to reposition it.
• Sometimes VoiceOver jumps to the Menu button after a move.
• Sometimes the unexpected screen reader announcements aren’t heard at all. For example, “Game restarted”. Also, in the Pyramid game, VoiceOver sometimes doesn’t announce which card was revealed.
• Sometimes a screen reader might announce information that’s not important, or ambiguous, making it harder to focus on the important part of the announcement.
• On Android, when swiping left/right to move TalkBack along a row in a the Pyramid or Tri Peaks games, TalkBack moves diagonally instead of horizontally.
• It can take far too long to restart a game of Baker’s Dozen Solitaire. This means when selecting the game from the app menu, it’s often not obvious as to whether the selection at the menu was actually made.
• After cards are discarded on a row, the VoiceOver swipe direction can get reversed for the remaining cards.
• The setting to change the colour of playing card suits had to be removed as it was making the app unstable.
• The game does not support changing between portrait and landscape screen orientation while a game is being played.
• The Pause Game button is clipped in a portrait game of Spider Solitaire. Also, the lowest of the three screen reader buttons can be clipped.
• If music in another app is playing, and sounds are enabled in the Accessible Solitaire game, the music pauses when the app makes any sort of noise, such as flipping a card.
• The Zoom Card Popup can show unexpected when rapidly tapping on two different cards, and if it shows a picture card, the popup contents can overflow outside the card border in the popup.
• All empty dealt card piles have the same name of: “Empty Dealt card pile”. The names should include the index of the dealt card pile.
• Some buttons and text aren’t appearing on the Settings page when fonts are large.
• On Windows, tabbing through the Settings page eventually moves keyboard focus through to the obscured main app buttons and cards.
• Double-tap with TalkBack on a selected dealt card, does not deselect the dealt card.
• The app needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled if the device runs out of power when app’s running.
• The Left/Right Arrow key press in dealt card piles sometimes does nothing on Windows.