Yeah, the dungeon crawl games like angband rogue and nethack were a
whole lot easier to play in dos, where rows and columns always lined up,
then pressing up/down in review mode always took you to the character
under/above where you were, and that made it considerably easier to tell
what was immediately around you. I've often wondered why windows/linux
screen readers don't adhere to this design philosophy, but the only time
I asked a screen developer about it, I was told it was the way
windows/linux works, and there's nothing the screen reader can do about
it, which of course is complete BS, considering the screen reader knows
exactly what character they are on, and it would be a trivial thing to
move to the same spot on the next line, but to each their own I guess.
My guess is that most folks don't think they need that level of
granularity, so the screen reader doesn't provide it, but I'd also wager
if it existed, a lot more folks would realize what they were missing,
and use the feature a whole lot, especially in programming circles with
languages such as python where indentation is required.
<shrug>
On 1/1/2021 1:32 AM, Mewtamer wrote:
While on the subject of MUDs, are there any that work well with just===========================================================
speech and don't have an excessive amount of white space that makes
keeping horizontal spacing of objects hard to follow?
Not sure if any of them were actually MUDs, but I've tried a few
terminal dungeon crawlers that use a grid of ascii characters to
represent the part of the dungeon map visible to the player, but I
found that with most of most maps being open space represented by
whitespace characters and the tedium of using screen review to try to
figure out the spacing between objects on the same row sucked the fun
out of the experience.
And while I suspect a Braille display could help with parsing
board/map spacing in games that use grids of Ascii characters, I don't
own one, don't have the money for one, and my Braille reading speed is
such a Braille display would be practically useless for reading normal
text.
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