Re: [orca-list] OT: Best console screen reader for roguelikes?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

fenrir can work in mate-terminal or gnome-terminal if I have this correct 
in addition to working as a console screen reader.



On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Francisco Tissera wrote:

> Hi there.
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> Fenrir is a console only screen reader correct?
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> Best regards.
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> Francisco.
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> From: Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 6:09 PM
> To: Nolan Darilek
> Cc: Orca
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT: Best console screen reader for roguelikes?
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> I play a few rogue-like games.  When I do that, usually it's with espeak
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> on a console.
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> I never found orca to add anything to the experience of rogue-like games
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> either.
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> Tiles in those games have no dictionary entries that would allow them to
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> properly speak as a character moved over or into them.  The text versions
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> of those games show ascii characters which once you learn it is possible
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> to play those games.
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> stone_soup or crawl same game two different names I think is a worthwhile
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> game to play if you can get it working.  If the graphics version ever gets
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> going, it may have extra sounds playing as a player plays the game like
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> alteraeon does in mud experience.  Any games like stone_soup that actually
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> work all of the way in orca I'd be interested in installing and playing.
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> I have to try some more directed experiments with fenrir in the rogue-like
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> gaming environment in graphical and console environments before I'm
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> prepared to give a review on fenrir.
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> On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Nolan Darilek wrote:
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> > Hey folks,
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> > Thinking of getting into roguelikes. Every time I've tried playing them in
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> > something like gnome-terminal, the experience is suboptimal. So I'm looking
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> > for the best console screen reader for them. Can anyone recommend one?
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> > I'm not sure if that question makes much sense. I know roguelike
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> > accessibility depends on the individual roguelike, but it probably also
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> > depends on how the screen reader interprets and handles various control
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> > sequences. As such, is there one that does better than others? I know
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> > Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead has accessibility improvements, but it needs to be
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> > played on a console and with an actual console screen reader to use them.
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> > Speakup was recommended to me, but my Linux experience is mostly with GUI
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> > distros. I mean, I can use the console well enough, I just don't know
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> > anything about light console-only distros with an accessible installation and
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> > that aren't blindie-specific. If I need Speakup, I'm happy for distro
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> > recommendations as well. I'm running this in a VM so there's no risk to
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> > hardware, but I'd rather not hose my graphical installation that I rely on.
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> > Thanks.
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