well, why not text? Ruby should work well, it's pretty close to plain english, and is not too heavy on punctuation, and is (mostly) not whitespace sensitive. Y

well, why not text? Ruby should work well, it's pretty close to plain english, and is not too heavy on punctuation, and is (mostly) not whitespace sensitive. You'll need some screenreader setup, of course. Making games is a major hook for kids to go into programming, but there're text games, like zork etc.