Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could get some help monitoring the behaviour of an inaccessible handheld game over time?
So far I have been using Aira, but it rarely gave any meaningful results.
I know nothing about cameras, but seems it was down to one or more of these four possible reasons:
1. the size of the screen itself (very small, maybe about an inch or so). Not sure if a phone camera is really designed to capture that small a space.
2. No way of holding the phone steady. I can hold it with my other hand, but I always seem to have a tendency of moving it rather unhelpfully.
3. Buttons are right next to the screen, so I end up unintentionally covering it.
4. To top it all off, the game imposes a ten second timeout before being booted out of the screen you're on.
Another thing I thought of, at least to combat the timeout issue, was to somehow record a long video of me playing it (or at least trying to play it), but we still have the questions of screen size and access and camera stability, plus the additional issue of not even knowing whether I'm aiming correctly.
Even if I manage to get something, I'd still need to find some way of getting it transcribed/described.
I do know there are many blind people who are a lot more advanced than me in these sorts of areas.
Does anyone know of any way at all I can pull this off, Or am I in a fantasy world with this?
@daygar Could a capture card work?
@ToniBarth Not a clue. Never even heard of them. Hahaha.
@daygar Does the handheld have some means of connecting a screen to it? Either via wi-fi or a USB-c connection or hdmi or something?
@ToniBarth Nope, no connections at all.
@daygar What device is it? lol
@ToniBarth One of those digital pet things. Cool Tec Pocket Puppy.
@daygar Well that is indeed really tricky. I'm afraid there will no proper way around that except asking a sighted person around you to help with that. Maybe a stand for your phone so you don't need to hold it in your hand would help, and proper lighting would be important as well.
@ToniBarth I feared as much. I don't have anyone sighted around which is why I'm trying to find a more independent way, but seems it is indeed very tricky. Thanks for your suggestions.