Hi all. In my quest to make Android my main operating system, I've gone a
long way. I can manage email, but Gmail and iCloud, I can browse the web, I
can read books, read/listen to news, radio, and music, and I can even use
FTP servers. But one thing I'm missing is an MUD clients. I've tried
blowtorch, no go. I've tried all of the clients I could find, and even
tried using térmica to install emacs+Emacspeak just so I could use
Emacspeak with the Emacs shell, and there use telnet. All in all, my
attempts have been frustrated by app inaccessibility, espeak not working
inside térmica, Emacspeak not being in the Térmica repository, and my lack
of programming skills. No, I *should not* have to learn to program just to
make an appointment for myself. That would take years of study, along with
the bolted on accessibility of the Android development studio, and by then
a solution could have already been made by competent developers that might
listen to the few Android users who also MUD and want to do so with a
Bluetooth keyboard connected to their phone/tablet. So, my only other
option is web based clients. I tried the one for Avalon, even managed to
log in through the web form. But then, I could not get the entered text in
the command box to send. It just stayed there, in the box. We *need* a
web-based MUD clients. If Aminuel can create a very good web client for the
playroom, I'm sure someone could make a simple web telnet client with a
live región that sends text output to the screen reader. In fact, if no
other developer steps forward with this, I'll ask the Playroom developers
to see if they can add an MUD table, if he's not already on this list! I'm
pretty serious. As the world, and blind users, move to mobile, as keyboard
input, whether with Braille screen input or Fleksy on iOS, or Bluetooth
keyboard input, becomes more common, a web or mobile *accessible* app
becomes not only a good way to just stay on one device, it allows MUD
developers to do more with their MUD! Imagine this.
Alteraron is a good social MUD. No stress to be a medieval rollplayer, no
need to hop on every week or so to keep from becoming dormant or anything
(exaggeration I know, but what ads aren't), and plenty of players to
quest/group with and talk to. So, say you're a follower, and you go to the
alteraron client on Chrome, or the app blind people use to MUD, I'll get
into that later. You set yourself to "follower," and you wait. No one comes
on in the next minute or so, so you class the site/app. Then in an hour or
so you get a notification! "from HTTP://www.alteraeon.com. A group leader
in your level range is available!" Wouldn't that be just awesome?
There could, if we go the app route, be a sort of notification protocol,
kind of like MSP, which, instead of sending sounds, sends notifications. In
fact, the two could be used together. An Alteraron logo sound could be
made, which would play when a notification is received. Of course, the site
way would probably be easier, since that notification protocol has already
been made.
Fragmentation? Nope. One MUD could create an accessible, useful html5 Web
based MUD clients. This client could be embedded into MUD sites. I *know*
this is possible because people do his with Youtube vídeos, social media
buttons, and even the flash/Java MUD clients. I really hope that either the
site or app becomes reality some day, and I suspect that, if MUD developers
and web programmers and beta testers work together, this could happen, as
it should. This would allow, if the site, universal access to a good,
accessible MUD clients. No more downloading Mush-z or any of that, the
client should define hotkeys on the site, and computers, Android devices,
Chromebooks, Mac's, Linux boxes, and probably iOS devices, could use them.
If there isn't support for hotkeys in the browser, one can still access
Hotpoints, mañana, all that with the MUD's commands, or aliases. HP, MN,
MV, all that. Sounds could either be sent over the network again and again,
or downloaded to the browser's cache. The user could decir if they want the
whole sound package, or just the most necessary sounds. Shoot, with
artists, the MUD's could even contain some visuals, which would help the
sighted as sounds help the blind. So, what do you all think? What do
developers and web devs think?
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