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The home of Accessible Games SV!
2009 Holiday Sale!
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday season!
To thank my loyal customers, and hopefully, to gain new ones, I have put together a holiday sale like no other!
From now through the end of the year, you can purchase every game on this web site, all 10 games, for less than $59 US!
That is $10 off the price of the Accessible Games SV 8 Pack, and you get Accessible Poker Squares SV, and Accessible Suit Yourself SV free!
This is less than $6 US per game, for software which is written specifically for visually impaired and blind computer users!
Anyone who has ever purchased adaptive software knows how much visually impaired and blind people must pay for these products.
I believe someone needs to make this type of software affordable, and that is the reason I write software!
For this reason, I need you to purchase my products so I can continue to bring you better, more advanced software in the future!
This sale makes these products so affordable, you can afford to buy one for yourself, then come back and buy one or more to give your friends and family members.
Anyone who recieves these 10 games as a gift will think you paid much, much more for them!
Go ahead and brighten up your holiday season, and that of your friends and family.
Purchase these 10 games for this great low price today, I promise, these games will never be sold for a price this low ever again!
Even if you do not make a purchase, I wish all of you a very happy, safe holiday season, and wonderful new year!
If 2009 was a bad year for you, i really hope 2010 brings you happiness!
A simple thing I heard once helps me, it goes like this:
Happiness is a choice!
If you are sad, I hope you can choose happiness in 2010!
2009 Holiday Sale!
My name is Robert Betz, and I write the games on this web site.
When I say these games are accessible, I am telling you that these games can be played by people with any type of visual impairment.
Anyone who is barely legally blind to people who are totally blind.
I realize this sounds like a bold statement to make, but I know these games are accessible because I am totally blind myself.
You can download a free 15 day trial version of each game from this web site!
This allows you to play the game for up to 15 days to see if you like it.
If you do enjoy the game, you can purchase a registered copy of the game which has no time limits on it, for a very low price.
During the trial period, or when the trial period is over, you can visit the Accessible Games Order page to order a registered copy of the game.
Some of you may know that I had said I was going to raise the price of each individual game from $9.99 to $12.99, but I never could do it.
The reason is because as a blind person myself, and also on a fixed income, I know very well how difficult it is for a blind person to survive, let alone have money for luxuries such as computer games.
For this reason, I have decided to not raise my prices!
This does place a hardship on me and my family, but I have to hope you will buy enough of my games to offset the money I am losing by keeping the price low.
Please, if you enjoy these games, purchase the ones you can, when you can, so I can continue to develop new more exciting games for you!
On that note, are you ready for something new?
2 new products, Suit Yourself SV, and Poker Squares SV!
Accessible Suit Yourself SV
Accessible Suit Yourself SV is a solitaire card game played with a standard deck of 52 cards. The objective is to move all 52 cards to the foundation in the given number of shuffles or less.
Accessible Suit Yourself SV was designed to be a fun, easy to play game that does not require a great deal of concentration.
Many times, I want a game to be easy to play, and easy to remember. I do not want to read a large manual and take notes, just so I can play a game for a few minutes.
Likewise, if I have not played the game for some time, I would like to spend my time playing the game, not reading about the game.
Your time is valuable, use it playing, not reading about playing!
I am sure you will enjoy it, so after you try it out, come back and purchase the registered version of this exciting game for the low, low price of only $9.99 US!
The Accessible Suit Yourself SV Trial Version!
Purchase and download the registered version of Accessible Suit Yourself SV right now!
Accessible Poker Squares SV!
This is a great new game I think you will enjoy!
Go ahead and read all about it, then download a free 15 day trial version and try it out!
I am sure you will enjoy it, so after you try it out, come back and purchase the registered version of this exciting game for the low, low price of only $9.99 US!
The Accessible Poker Squares SV Trial Version!
Purchase and download the registered version of Accessible Poker Squares SV right now!
The Accessible Games SV 8 Pack!
The Accessible Games SV 8 Pack is one product containing these 8 games:
Accessible Battleship SV
Accessible Blackjack SV
Accessible FreeCell SV
Accessible Memory SV
Accessible Simon SV
Accessible Word Play SV
Accessible Word Scramble SV
Accessible Yahtzee SV
You can purchase the 8 pack and download it immediately, for only US $69!
Accessible Games Order Page!
Accessible Games SV!
Accessible Games SV are designed specifically for visually impaired and blind computer users.
I am totally blind and wrote these games myself.
This allows me to be very confident to say, that these games are accessible to all, especially those of us with vision loss.
I enjoy playing these games myself, so if a totally blind dummy like me can play them, you will surely be able to enjoy them too.
Links are provided below allowing you to read about each game, and even download a free 15 day trial version to try out.
First though, let me explain a very important feature of all these games.
Eloquence speech synthasizer!
All games listed below have the initials SV in their name.
The initials SV represent the words "Self Voicing".
Self voicing is my way, to tell the user that the game can speak, with no other software or hardware required!
If you are using a computer running Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Milineum, 2000, or XP, these games will provide a spoken interface for visually impaired and blind users.
This is accomplished by including the Eloquence speech synthasizer in each game.
Eloquence is considered by many to be the premier software speech synthasizer in the world, and each of these games contains its own copy of this great speech interface.
The Eloquence speech synthasizer has many great features, and here are only a few:
8 unique voices ranging from Reed, an adult male voice, to Bobby, a child's voice, and even Grandma and Grandpa, the voices of the wise elderly grandparents.
You can choose any of these 8 voices to provide the speech interface to the game.
You have the ability to change these voices too!
Change the pitch of the voice
Change the speech rate
Change the volume of the voice too!
The ability to change the voice makes it fun and easy to create a voice that is easy to understand, and how fast it speaks.
If you decide to play with the voices, and create a voice you really like, simply choose the OK button in the voices window, and your changes will be saved and used until you change it again!
Most importantly, remember that this great speech output is built directly into each game, so no other hardware or software is required!
Enough reading, go ahead and use the following links to get a free trial version right now, and I hope you enjoy playing these games as much as I enjoyed writing them!
Battleship SV
Blackjack SV
Freecell SV
Memory SV
Poker Squares SV
Suit Yourself SV
Simon SV
Word Play SV
Word Scramble SV
Yahtzee SV