Any accessible but portable mud client on windows?
I do not want to install lots of applications on my working pc
SuperSilly 於 13/2/2021 11:07 寫道:
Thanks for your reply.
I am just looking at MushClient edition for Alter Aeon
Then I would say MUD are all accessible, but some are more blind
friendly.
Cynthya BrianKate 於 13/2/2021 2:47 寫道:
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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