Re: Mudlet & screenreaders
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:09 am
I'm confused about how mushclient duplicates lines. Perhaps that's jaws and its echoing of highlighted text, that's caused problems in the past.
Another problem with MUSHclient is partial lines. If you receive "What is your name?" without a trailing newline, it won't speak until you enter your name and the mud sends a newline. This is confusing for those who don't know about it, and sometimes annoying to work around if the particular mud doesn't support changing the prompt.
As you said, the screen reader interfaces are just fire and forget. There's no way to get status, just start and stop speaking, but sapi has its own problems. I wouldn't want to use Anna for serious mudding, and she's the default voice. Espeak is free, but as said earlier in the thread doesn't sound that good to some people. Marry, Mike and Sam require a lot of work to get going on windows 7, and it seems sapi on windows 8 is noticeably slower than previous windows versions. I haven't tried running my full mud interface through it, so I could be wrong on some of this.
Mudlet's mapper is quite interesting to me because I currently have no way of getting from place to place without memorizing directions. I can speedwalk, but that requires I can always get to a known starting place.
I'd really like to see what you have, and maybe try to modify it (though my C++ isn't that great). Is there a git repository somewhere?
Another problem with MUSHclient is partial lines. If you receive "What is your name?" without a trailing newline, it won't speak until you enter your name and the mud sends a newline. This is confusing for those who don't know about it, and sometimes annoying to work around if the particular mud doesn't support changing the prompt.
As you said, the screen reader interfaces are just fire and forget. There's no way to get status, just start and stop speaking, but sapi has its own problems. I wouldn't want to use Anna for serious mudding, and she's the default voice. Espeak is free, but as said earlier in the thread doesn't sound that good to some people. Marry, Mike and Sam require a lot of work to get going on windows 7, and it seems sapi on windows 8 is noticeably slower than previous windows versions. I haven't tried running my full mud interface through it, so I could be wrong on some of this.
Mudlet's mapper is quite interesting to me because I currently have no way of getting from place to place without memorizing directions. I can speedwalk, but that requires I can always get to a known starting place.
I'd really like to see what you have, and maybe try to modify it (though my C++ isn't that great). Is there a git repository somewhere?