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Shadow of the Wyrm

Traditional roguelike in the style of ADOM and Omega · By Julian Day

Accessibility: Suggestions for screen reader users

A topic by Stevie-3 created Jul 29, 2023 Views: 143 Replies: 4
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Hi Julian, incredible game you've got here and I've just barely scratched the surface.

I have a suggestion to make if that's alright as a blind player. It's awesome that a screen reader can read aloud each square when in the look around mode with 'x', but it can become tedious when you have to examine each and every square before making a move and it can be difficult to remember where everything is. A suggestion I would have would be if you could have an option to have the game tell you how far away from the character the look cursor is. Example: I press 'x' and move the cursor 5 squares to the left and 3 squares up, the game could say "5 East 3 North", that way I could more easily map where monsters and items are relative to my character. Another suggestion would be to have a menu pop up, telling you what's around and how far away it is, or maybe make it so the tab key could cycle through monsters and items in LOS, reporting there distances. I don't know how hard this would be for you to implement, but it would sure be awesome.

There are so many roguelikes that I will never be able to play as a blind user and this one is already more accessible than 95% of the ones I've tried, so thank you so much for that. Just a couple of tiny things, and this could become the greatest game I've ever played. Amazing work man, keep it up.

Developer

Hi,

These are both excellent suggestions. The tab one I won't implement right way, but I'll definitely add it to my list of suggestions. The look-cursor distance I can add as a configurable setting for the next version. I'll try to work on it later today. I always credit people who make suggestions that get implemented - I can credit you as Stevie-3, or something else if you prefer. If you don't want to post it here, you can just shoot me an email. My address is on the website.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Hi, thanks for the quick response, that's awesome of you. I can't wait to play with those new features. You can use either Stevie-3 or Stephen Shaffer, my real name. I don't mind either way. Again, thank you and congrats on such an awesome game.

Developer

This is done. It's off by default, but is configurable in swyrm.ini and will be in the next release.

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Sweet! I can't wait!