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03 Nov 2024 12:36
 
 
We have put some effort lately to making this place a bit more accessible to
our users who are blind or visually impaired. We already have some supporting
features designed for those players who use screen reader technology to play
the game. Certain graphical elements, such as outworld maps, have been
especially problematic for screen readers and we have made some effort
translating them to text form. Some guilds already provide special
interfaces for screen readers.

However, at this point it makes sense to introduce a fancy new command
called: screenreader

Screenreader command makes it possible for you turn on the screen reader mode.
For people who are blind this is the recommended option. If you can see, the
command is not for you, but having knowledge of it helps you share knowledge
to any new players who might need it.

Because screenreader users receive special assistance in certain cases, we
have wanted to make this option non-toggleable option. For more information
about the command: help screenreader

To read more about accessibility: help accessibility

Trying to trick someone into turning on the screen reader mode so that they
would take up archwizards' precious time fixing unwanted accidents is such
a funny joke that whoever comes up with it is likely to be hanged, quartered,
and keelhauled simultaneously so surrealistically that even Picasso himself
couldn't turn it into a picture.

Special thanks to Heidel for finding a place for this in the tutorial and
to Nosunrise who has already put a lot of effort into developing many of the
special supports we already have in place.

The work is by no means complete and we have a long way to go before we are
able to make every feature fully available to everybody, but we'll take it
one step at the time.

--Darol




 
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Darol
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