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May 24, 2009 at 11:42 pm #1069
If you are using a screen reader to play LotJ, let us know some of the issues that you have to deal with that make the game difficult for you. Maybe we can make a config +screenreader setting so the mud automatically gives you the screenreader friendly version of a particular feature when available.
One player informed me that the star chart was impossible to use. Walldo suggested that some of the fancy room titles with decorative punctuation might make it difficult.
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May 25, 2009 at 12:08 am #9953"Anna":3jktil69 wrote:If you are using a screen reader to play LotJ, let us know some of the issues that you have to deal with that make the game difficult for you. Maybe we can make a config +screenreader setting so the mud automatically gives you the screenreader friendly version of a particular feature when available.
One player informed me that the star chart was impossible to use. Walldo suggested that some of the fancy room titles with decorative punctuation might make it difficult.[/quote:3jktil69]
Things that I can think of right off the bat:
Anything with a slider – alignment, score level, et al.
On that note, almost all of score seems like it would be a PITA.
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May 25, 2009 at 4:45 am #9967
The person in question may have already notified you of this, but I believe they said they had difficulty making out the table in the ‘combine’ helpfile.
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May 25, 2009 at 6:13 pm #9969
You might start with removing all ASCII formatting with a config +screenreader option. (I.E. dashed lines in roomdescs, etc)
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May 26, 2009 at 1:39 pm #9970
Well, it wouldn’t be quite so easy as removing -all- non-alphanumeric characters, since some, like slashes and dashes and punctuation are necessary in some situations and not in others, and there’s no real easy way to filter out which is which.
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May 26, 2009 at 2:18 pm #9971
Okay. The stuff in score that you can’t read (the experience sliders) you can get the numbers seperately, so no big deal.
Weird room titles are not helpful, but they’re possible to ignore.
Anything with colors is a nono, obviously. Asking someone to do a quest or know quest mobs by color alone isn’t a good way to do it.
(P.S: Yeah, I’m blind)
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May 26, 2009 at 7:10 pm #9972
I can’t think of a replacement for color off the top of my head, because even something like italics or underlining wouldn’t be picked up by a screen reader. It might be possible to make it so it displays the color tags as text rather than displaying colors but in some places that would be head-stabbingly awful moreso than helpful.
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May 27, 2009 at 6:18 pm #9976
My thought as well. I would think it’d be better just to redo critical stuff so color isn’t important.
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June 13, 2009 at 4:27 pm #10061
Put things in quotes, or maybe some other form of punctuation to show that they are highlighted for people with screenreaders.
Something that a screen reader will say the name of, rather than just ignore.
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June 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm #10076
On the other game I play you can just type [b:36jkw73q]ansi off[/b:36jkw73q] and it disables all the color. I have no idea how it works or what ansi stands for though.
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June 13, 2009 at 9:28 pm #10077"RebornSinner":k5vuhf27 wrote:On the other game I play you can just type [b:k5vuhf27]ansi off[/b:k5vuhf27] and it disables all the color. I have no idea how it works or what ansi stands for though.[/quote:k5vuhf27]
American National Standards Institute.
Colour doesn’t affect screenreaders, so having it or on or off would make no difference.
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June 16, 2009 at 7:23 am #10122"Ilyena":210l09gb wrote:Colour doesn’t affect screenreaders, so having it or on or off would make no difference.[/quote:210l09gb]
It does, Most people have to write out to ignore color. I have talked to a few people who tell me there screenreader goes nuts over ansi color’s in muds. Im not fully aware of what sets it off but sometimes it even starts listing each letter and color as it come across
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