I will check out lensmoor, I've been waiting for a good mud suggestion. > On Feb 12, 2021, at 12:47 PM, Cynthya BrianKate <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, I would like to answer the initial question of this thread, > which was if MUD is text and screen readers read text why some MUD games are > said to be more accessible than others. > First is the technical issue of how they handle all the miscellaneous text > symbols you get with ASCII in the game text. Like with maps and signs and > other such things. Some games have very good handling of this where it'll > say like "the inn is west and the guild is south" and others will have a > whole bunch of symbols there which to us using screen readers, well it sounds > like a whole bunch of punctuation with no meaning. And some games have an > easy and explicitly stated and eplained way to turn things like those maps > off which you find from the get-go, others have it where you can find it > eventually, some where you have to ask around other players or the admins. > Least this has been some of my experience over two years of playing a whole > lot of MUD games and settling on a small handful, and mainly sticking to one > you folks here told me of (that'd be new worlds Ateraan these days). > Then I have run across some games where IDK if is my screen reader > (Voiceover on IOS) or my client (mudrammer) or who knows, but I have found > some games where the game seems to lag no matter how fast my net connection > is, and combat can be a pain to a nightmar depending. > Then there is the helpful-ness of players and admin folks. > I have found most games have good friendly environments where people are > more than willing and often happy to help blind and visually impaired people > out. Though I have found a couple where other players were impatient jerks > and even one where an admin busted my chops so unercifully for not being able > to follow directions clearly for the fully sighted and that admin was such a > jerk I am still tempted to just bad-feedback the game to hell. Luckily such > has only been the one for me. But I do judge a game by how well is a blind > newbie treated. A truly positive experience was my first moments of > lensmoor, which is why I am still trying to get folks to play it, besides > that you can create/craft/restring pretty much anything and everything there, > the main draw was that in the opening five minutes I was there two longtime > players found me and said "you don't want that crap starter equipment, if you > don't mind coming with us?" And their second question was "you seem having > trouble with that map junk, do you mind us asking if you use a screen > reader/are blind" and I knew it was a game I would spend near a year in cause > everyone there has been like that, least everyone I met. > Then is how many blind/visually impaired people play the game. Is there > any kind of blind resources as a dedicated part of the game. While I wish > Ateraan had more flexible crafting option for non-merchants I will say that a > huge percentage of the players (actually like half the folks I know among the > group my character Danya has met) are in oud blind players channels. > So if you're on Ateraaan try finding me as Danya and if you get to > lensmoor look for me as Rythia or as Vyra. But I do hope I have given some > ideas as to why if MUD is text why some are said to be more accessible than > others. > > > >
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