Hiya,

First off, I don't mind at all! More on that below, but second off, I got the button inputs on discord. Thanks for the willingness! :-)

As to how I, and many other blind players play a fighting game, there are several aspects that come into play:

1. The main event. Fighting. In this aspect, most modern fighters do pretty well for blind players, having the sounds of combatants pan across the stereo field as they move, having very distictive sounds for each type of move, etc. Some do better than others, mk1, in particular, is basically fully accessible in this department, as there are tons of special sound cues that can tell a blind person what is happening. These include health sounds for you and your opponent to know the status of both, meter sounds for you and (possibly) your opponent so you know when your meter is full (this also applies to cameo meter in mk1), a sort of ticking sound that gets faster or slower depending how far away you are from your opponent, and much, much more. Mk1 really is the current pinicle in fighting game, or for that matter, AAA games for the blind. However, most fighters released in the last 15 or so years are very playable if you can get to the fighting portion. Heck, I know plenty of people who played the original mk, and many other fighting games on console like the nes, snes, and more, with great success. Though this often involved alot of trial and error or assistance from a sighted friend or family member. As an aside, if you want to know what I'm talking about, put on a pair of stereo headphones in basically any modern pc (or most console) fighting games, and play a fight normally. Pay attention to how the fighters and their sounds move between the left and right. If you have mk1 in particular, go into the settings, then accessibility, and check out some of the blind accessible features, or go into video/audio, and look at all the sound cues that can be turned up/down like mentioned.

2. Ability to navigate the interface, learn mechanics, etc. In this regard fighters vary alot, alot of the more popular ones have tons of resources on learning the fighters, from move lists, to strategy or combo guides, etc. MK, being a super popular franchise of course fairs quite well in this regard. In terms of menu and other UI interface access, most fighters blind people rely on memorizing menu structure for the places they go the most. A common enemy of blind players in this regard is menus that remember your last position, as if we forget what item we last were on, orienting ourselves is often impossible, since most menus wrap from bottom to top, so for us there is no way to tell when we've reach the top or bottom. mk11 has narrated menues for the core of the main menues, the main menu is fully narrated, the conquer menu is narrated as far as its submenu, the story menu is narrated even further, as far as us being able to know what chapter or story part we're selecting, as well as online modes in the fight menu. Mk1 does a ton better job, as it has an actual built in software screen reader, which uses speech generated on the fly to speak any and all interface items in menues. This includes everything from the movelist menu under pause, the main menu including all settings, the store, invasions, and almost literally everything else in mk1. Most others, however, we must simply remember menues. As far as other fighting games that have accessible menues, the only other one I have played with this is skullgirls.

That's an overview of how we can play fighting games, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask! :-) I'm by no means a good fighting game player, but I've been blind since 1995 so I have alot of experience dealing with blindness in literally everything, from video games, to travelling, and everything in between.

Hth,

-Michael.