Nah, it's easy to make an accessible java program. Making it not
accessible actually takes work believe it or not.
Unfortunately, most folks don't like the default output routines java
gives us, so instead of using those, they'll draw things on the screen
instead of using the provided text output routines java has built in.
And, even better, (for visually impaired developers), java has a grid
mode, where it will place GUI elements on the screen in a logical left
to right top to bottom layout for you, so you never have to worry about
your screen designs being visible, and you don't have to fight with
screen layout at all. Unfortunately, java also offers other layout
modes/methods, and often times sighted developers think nothing of
making their app look unique, so they fiddle with various aspects of the
output modes, making them less than usable for screen reader users.
Apple developers do the same thing, if folks using the apple development
tools use the apple provided screen layout elements, the app is 100
percent accessible. But, as always, folks want their app to look
different, or they want to do something different, and so they don't use
the provided default elements, and poof, instant app that isn't accessible.
These days, it's trivially easy to make accessible applications, only
sighted developers don't like boring, so they try to snazz things up by
changing various aspects of the design, and thereby screw up the built
in accessibility in the process.
On 1/21/2023 10:40 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Mudschool in coffeemud shows you when you get to the correct room about
its config options. For some reason coffeemud throws ansi and that messes
up screen displays. Prompts usually hang out near the bottom of the
screen if you set lines and columns correctly too. That way those can
either be avoided or turned off by setting a window on the screen reader
that doesn't include those prompt lines and using that window for
operations. Remember coffeemud like many other bad things on the internet
was written in java so won't be as easily maintainable as earlier
languages with deeper internet documentation. It's interesting to me that
coffeemud having been written in java works as well as it does.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
.
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, Lindsay Cowell wrote:
I also tried coffee mud, but I find it very confusing. As you can?t turn the
prompts off and it is very confusing and there are no screen reader settings
that I can find.
On 20 Jan 2023, at 11:34 pm, Travis Siegel <tsie...@nfbcal.org> wrote:
The two I play the most are 3k.org 3000, and their sister mud
3scapes.3k.org 3000, and of course alter aeon, which you probably already have
(alteraeon.com 3000)
Both of those muds have screen reader settings to make the mud easier to
use.
Drop me a line if you loginto 3k or 3scapes, and I'll be happy to assist
where I can.
On 1/20/2023 5:23 PM, Lindsay Cowell wrote:
Hi guys
Can anyone recommend any good muds?
Lindsay Cowell.
Sent from Mail for Windows
From: Jude DaShiell
Sent: 20 January 2023 19:47
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] coffeemud
Bad experience in that mud.
For anyone intent on playing coffeemud I leave you with two tips.
First when going through mudschool, do not accept the quest you will be
offered. Reason for that is dealer in land is impossible to find so the
quest cannot be completed.
Second, when you create a character for coffeemud create several since the
kill rate in that game is high at low levels and level 6 and below is a
low level.
This way as you retire failed characters, you can play another you created
earlier. Yes this will mean lots of time in mudschool and a highly boring
experience for a long time but eventually you'll have all of the
characters you created graduate.
Another advantage of not taking the mudschool quest is you don't have to
start out in asGaard and can have your choice of any of the cities as each
character leaves mudschool
There's a dungeon in the center of the mudschool arena so if you can kill
everything in that dungeon and loot the bodies you'll have a little more
money when you graduate. Money is hard to come by though you can bank it.
Avoid a short man with a clipboard since that's the tax collector. The
tax collector floats around to different locations in the game too.
All my characters got killed and retired in coffeemud so I'll not be
playing that one for quite a while since it wasn't the best experience
with a mud I've had. At least with nethack it doesn't take so long to
build a character before it gets killed not the case with coffeemud.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
.
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