For screen reader users, text-based multiplayer games (MUDs) are often easier to access than graphical games.

So why can playing one from a web browser feel harder instead of easier?

Brandon Cross (aka bscross) explains it all in this interview:
https://writing-games.org/accessibility-interview-bscross/

#MUDs #Accessibility #TextGames

Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:

In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".

When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".

Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".

In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".

#offtopic

If your app or OS requires a toggle to be turned on for a screen reader to even *access* your UI, you're so, so not helping. We already have to know about the screen reader, we shouldn't have to check an assistive technologies checkbox or a VoiceOver checkbox or a screen reader mode command or, even fucking better, a Braille support command.

Instead, how about get rid of it and default to "everyone uses a screen reader" mode. And if shit's slow with that on, think of how we fucking feel.

> LOOK

You are in a room. There are exits to the north and west. There is an armchair.

> SIT

You are sitting in an armchair in a room. There are exits to the north and west. A small black cat enters the room.

> TAKE CAT

You cannot take the cat.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It starts to purr.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It jumps onto the chair, purrs, and settles on your lap.

> N

You cannot go north. You are immobilised by a cat.

> STAND UP

You cannot stand up. You are immobilised by a cat.

> W

You cannot go west. You are immobilised by a cat.

> PET CAT

The cat purrs.

#Cats