This sounds like an awesome idea but I am not a dev. I wait for the day I can mud on android with ease.
On 1/29/17, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? 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