Free Computer Games for the Blind

With screen readers available the blind population is online as much as the general population. A few programmers have seen the need for accessible audio games for the blind.

Several sites offer free games or free demos to download. I enjoy quite a few of these games and spend a lot of time trying to beat Boggle or just playing solitaire, a pastime that is new to me.

Visit the Kitchen's Inc. web site for free games created by Jim Kitchen.

The games include windows self voicing games for those who do not have access to a screen reader. They range from Mach 1 Jim Kitchen's rendition of the Atari car racing game Pole Position to The audio Version of Pong. An audio version of Bopit and a golf game are also yours for the download.

Mach 1 is a racing game with 8 tracks to choose from and a car that is driven at speeds up to 225 mph. All this is done by hand ear coordination. , to check out these and other free windows sapi5 text to speech games on the Kitchen's Inc web site such as, Casino in which you can play poker black Jack or a slot machine. Your ears may get tired but you will undoubtedly have fun. With Board games such as Monopoly, Life, and Yahtzee to choose from you will enjoy computer games for hours on end

At the Games for the Blind Web site you will find free 15 day trial versions of self voicing games Such as battle ship, Yahtzee, Word scramble, Simon and black Jack.

All these games are played by using keyboard commands and are voiced by the Eloquence speech synthesizer. . If you find you simply must have the complete version of these games the price is very reasonable at around $20 per game.

Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers Series (BG for short) is a group of freeware games designed by Ian Humphreys. They include BG Cribbage, BG Free Cell Solitaire, BG Klondike Solitaire, BG Scorpion Solitaire (my favorite) and more… The newest release to the Blind Gamers list is BG Boggle and BG 15 Puzzle a computer version of the popular sliding number puzzle. Visit the Spoonbill web site and enjoy the games. I know I can't seem to leave some of these alone. Now I'm off to play Boggle or maybe Yahtzee and later I'm going to take a few laps around the track in Mach 1 and see if I can beat my record.

You might even enjoy playing some of these audio games if you are sighted. There is a real challenge to remembering all the sounds and directions of the sounds in order to win the game. Jim Kitchen's Golf game is played by hitting the space bar to swing your golf club when the pitch of sound is at the right level for the distance you need to hit the ball. The higher the pitch the harder your swing. This takes some practice and a good ear. Board and card games take skill and memory so jump in and have fun even if you can see the screen.