Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

Messages at the top of the screen can give you a little clue as to what's going on but they don't tell you the whole story. On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, dark wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:56:59 From: dark Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re:

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

I know about the nethaccess file, but whenever I've ried the map has been impossible to make sense of since screen readers read text in lines and getting a line that says dot dot dot hash dot dot dot dot bar dot dot doesn't tell me much, indeed the only roguelike I've ever had success playing

Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's call: A House Devided

Spoiler, It’s in one of the tents in one of the four Goblin encampments where you get the keys. I think it’s random, but it’s usually not in the chieftain tents. Look for a writing desk. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Tobias Vinteus Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 11:17 AM To:

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

Don't listen to the screen reader while it reads lines. Wait until it stops then use the keys you normally use to check out the characters on the screen. The first thing to do when the screen reader stops reading is to locate any @ signs. One of these is going to be you. Others are either

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

Again though when you hit down arrow from your current position your told the entire line not just what is one tyle south of you. There is no way with a windows screen reader to go down one character thus you can never be sure what is south or north of you exactly, quite aside from the fact

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

Don't use arrow keys. What's wrong with h,j,k,l? On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, dark wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:10:17 From: dark Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Again though when you hit down arrow from your current

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

I meant arrow keys to read the screen, since you always read up and down line by line. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Don't

Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack

Nethack has a configuration file for accessibility included in its package and it's an alternate file so needs copying over the default file. I've never had braille equipment to play nethack and have always done with speech even as far back as the dos versions before dos 7 came out. Once you