Was on a mud and this guy asked me about how well screen readers worked with muds. After telling him I found out he had a friend who was blind and lacked a computer, so he would have to build him one... and naturally enough this means he lacks a screen reader. As often happens he hadn't realised how much screen readers cost. So as a result I just have to ask has anyone had any success with any mud clients and free screen readers?
I'm pretty dubious about Thunder at the best of times, but have tried NVDA with GMUD Monkeyterm and Mushclient which the guy suggested and none worked with it so far as I could tell. I know there was mention on Randylaptop's mudding section about the scripts supporting SAPI, but I was hoping for something which would allow you to step through the output as I do with the Jaws cursor so that you can look over what you might have missed or move around awkward outputs. I know there also *might* be potential with Linux using SpeakUp or EmacSpeak, but haven't used Linux in some time and even when I did it had been poorly set up as a part of my equipment for college and that sort of soured me to the system.
If anyone has had any success with anything at all, or knows of anyone who has, please reply with any details you can.
Thanks.
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