Hi Kim.
I'm afraid I don't use Jaws, but I have recently got into playing muds
myself using vipmud with sapi, which is stil the most newby friendly client.
How muds work is like this.
The text is sent across the net from a mud to your client completely in real
time. What this means is if you have ten seconds to defuse a bomb, you'll
have the text 10, 9, 8 etc appearing at second intervals on your screen.
Assuming your client is working correctly, vipmud should read the text as it
automatically appears, ---- incidently, this is why I use sapi not Hal,
sinse I need the text read as it comes, not reviewed by me.
vipmud is user friendly because it has two separate areas for displaying
text, input and output.
so all the commands you type into the mud are in the in put area, while what
the mud sends to you is in the output one. Hitting tab should switch you
betwene them, and once in either area, you should be able to use up and down
arrows to review line by line just as in a text document.
This means the things you type are separate from the mud, making it easier
to tell what is going on.
This is of course how things are supposed to work. There are three reasons I
can see why you might be having problems.
First, a problem with Jaws 13. As I said, I don't use Jaws, but you might
want to try switching to sapi output just to see if that makes a difference,
sinse if that fixes it you'll know where to look for the issue.
2: a problem with your own connection. what muds have you tried thus far? it
might be that the muds you've tried have themselves been on dodgy
connections. I'd suggest trying something known to be stable like alteraeon
just to test this. how is your own internet connection normally? muds are
pretty low on bandwidth but they do require a stable connection that doesn't
fluctuate. If you have issues with signal strenth or the like this might be
the problem.
Laslty, it could be a problem with vipmud. This I think is less likely in
general sinse the program has been extensively tested, but of course
anything is possible. You might want to contact david greenwood and ask
about this, sinse generally he's good with tech questions and of course he
knows the program next.
hope some of this is helpful, and if you have anymore questions about muds
just ask.
Btw, I'd recommend keeping this discussion on list rather than as
"corrispondance" as you put it, sinse then you can have more people's
opinions involved, people who for instance, might be using jaws. Afterall,
game proglem solving is part of what this list is for.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfr...@verizon.net>
To: <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:07 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] correspondence
Hi, I'd like to get messages from those who do role playing and/or
mudding because this is something I'd like to learn how to do and I am
having a quite difficult time even making the attempt to do so. For one
thing, my screen reader (Jaws 13) hasn't been working with the one MUD
client I have (VIP MUD) because if I use the arrow keys from within a
game, it's as if the screen is blank and there's nothing there even
though text may be on the screen. The MUD client also seems to
disconnect at the drop of a hat, so I feel as if I'm in Dickens'
circumlocution office (Reference, Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, in
which the hapless person is going round in circles and backwards at the
same time, in short, going nowhere at all). It doesn't do any good to
tell me to try different Mud clients out as I have no idea how to
determine if I like them or not. (You're talking to the one who doesn't
know what to do with the Mud client she already has, let alone any
others which might be used by the blind.) As far as I know, there is
absolutely no literature on the subject for rank beginners like myself.
I can't seem to get beyond first base in playing an RPG because of this
MUD client problem. The text (if it does come) arrives in great clumps
and as I said, I can't even review what's there to make any decisions.
Please help me out as I am seriously frustrated about this whole
situation. Regards, Kim Friedman. P.S.: I'd like also to know if the
Iron Realms games are regarded as accessible (games are Achaea, Aetolia,
Lusternia, Emperion, and Midkemia [the last based on Raymond E. Feist's
novels).) K.
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