Touch-Maps

Concept

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Touch-Maps are Traveller subsector maps enhanced to be user-friendly for Traveller fans who are blind or have limited eyesight, and who use tablets or other touch-screen devices with software to read aloud text that is touched. Specific planned enhancements are increased size to make it easier to touch individual hexes without accidentally touching adjacent hexes, and image-mapped text to work with the read-aloud software to deliver information about what is in each hex.

Development

The current pilot project page (as of 28 October 2013) is a Touch-Map of Regina Subsector. Once that page is completed and tested and refined to the satisfaction of our test user (or test users, if additional testers volunteer), then more Touch-Maps in the same format will be created for every subsector in the Spinward Marches sector. Once we have a format finalized, a “How-To” section will be added to this page laying out the whole process for making these Touch-Maps, for anyone who wants to expand the coverage by making more. We may also have a template to help with making them all uniform in layout and information content.

Discussion

Help and suggestions are welcome – this is a Wiki, after all.  For discussion of the general subject of Touch-Maps, use the Discussion tab for this page; for discussion specific to the pilot page for Regina Subsector, please use the Discussion tab of that individual page.

List of Completed Touch-Maps

There will be a Category link here, once we decide what the Category should be called.