Re: Arcane Fortune - Windows/Linux/Mac console-played grand strategy game
As to your assumption about use of braille. I imagine the majority of screen reader users don't use it, greatly due to the big price tag as was mentioned before.
I think most blind and VI people who lost their eyesight after school age haven't even learned Braille, me included.
Having the game be more usable for synthesized speech output would probably be the most useful for the largest portion of this community.
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Also I would say that any cli that has auto refreshing content is probably going to be very difficult to use, at least with NVDA. I know for me, even super basic commands like "top" are just unusable, since by the time I navigate to something I am interested in with my review cursor, somethhing on the page will have changed, so the review cursor is reset back to the bottom of the screen.
Maybe SpeakUp handles this sort of thing better, but I imagine that setting it up is beyond the abiity of most users here.
I think it could be more usable if having content change would be user-driven instead of happening automatically, so the user could review their screen in peace and then issue a command for things to update in some way.
I'm thinking maybe there could even be a refresh kb command, so for example when the user presses "r" the screen will be redrawn with the updated info.
edit: but ofc the bigger issue is having things presented in a logical way, so that even if the user has a static screen to work with that they can make sense of things. I think when I tried the game on WSL, lines of the map were interleaved with event messages, making it hard to make sense of.
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