Ross,

There is basic online play, but it's very much not the main focus of this particular app. That being said, there's another open source program called XMage, which is intended exclusively for online. Sadly it isn't accessible at the moment but if the developers can't be convinced to work on accessibility for it, I might give it a try myself. XMage supports Commander and all the other big formats, but then again so does this app, albeit mostly with AI opponents.

@ross
It's very hard to get mtg cards in some location, e. Iran, where i live, Sadly online play is all we have
I'm playing  forge a lot these days thanks to zack.
I gree with you about online.
I think it would be great if we could have forge and xmage both accessible since online play is  very exciting. Forge has the superior AI but xmage has a very good online lobby settings so you could restrict it to certain rules and such
Good news about xmage is that  everything is accessible about it except seeing the actual cards You could  easily set up lobbies and such.
If we manage to find java developers to help us  improve xmage, that would be awesome
I know that people like ross have a bigger audience on twitter/youtube etc, so if you can ask for help from developers to put that final fix on xmage that would be amazing.
MEanwhile though, I'm  just getting familiar with magic on forge and it is very awesome!

Hey all,

I just wanted to drop a quick update on where things stand. At the moment the game accessibility is still being improved, albeit at a somewhat slower rate due to real-life worries and work. My latest efforts have been adding names to some components in the UI which lack them, such as the "start," button on the game creation screens, and the tables in the deck chooser. I've also been adding some controls to the tab sequence to make navigation of the app a little more fluid. At the moment the card details text field is tabbable, which makes it much easier to tell what a given card does.

I'm hoping to get some time this weekend to work on the game log and displaying card stats and such in a simpler fashion. These are the two big areas which still need a little improvement.

I've realized that I generally prefer offering live demos to pre-recording them, so have to apologize again for not having one ready. My friend Hadi has offered to do one at some point in the near future, and as always if anyone has any questions feel free to hit me up on here or on Skype or where ever.

Sadly, I'm afraid I don't know much about the game either, at least not compared to some people who have been playing it for years.

PatrykK,

I am working on trying to minimize the need to use object navigation. It's a slow process. My point is just because an app requires you to use it doesn't mean the app is unusable.

Hi all guys! So, I'm trying this game but, despite the numerous panes and the fact that I can, somewhat, start a game, for me it's really impossible navigate the interface; I can not find the game's settings and other stuf using the nvda navigation commands or the mouse commands in this screen reader. I reallyy would like playing at least a match just to understand if this game is for me but, really, I can't do anything; sorry! I'll have to delete this game if I can't iven figure how it's made and how to select, at least, the cards to play! No keystroke seems working in my case! Could you help me, please? Thanks!

Thank you so much for doing this! I am dieing to play some MTG again.

trying to play the game, I have to say I am quite frustrated. I've tried playing a game and cant figure out how to do the basic things I need. Like for example I am on my turn 2 and played my second mountain. I have a creature in hand with cost listed as {2} {R}. So I tap my two mountains and then click on the creature. a sort of dialogue comes up askkng to pay mana cost. well I have two tapped red in my pool. there is an auto button and a cancel button.

I try clicking the auto button. nothing happens.

I navigagte all the way to my list of manas. I notice that when i click that it decrements my mana, so i click my 2 red mana twice so it goes to zero.... still nothing.

very frustrating...

could someone please do a live recording of them playing the game and saying how the basics of the UI work, cause figuring them out isa puzzle game on its own. not a game I am interested in.

also in term sof making the UI more accessible, why not use Tolk? it would be really nice to get screen reader output when things happen, especially things in the log, cause I sure as heck dont like having to navigate to it everytime something happens.

Also does GC work for anyone whose resolution isnt 1920 x 1080? for me it seems to not work.

@90 ah, okay. makes sense. thanks for that! I will give it a try at some point. would really help if someone could give a walkthrough for how to navigate the UI easily. GC positions dont seem to work for me.  I guess without them playing the game is very tedious. but thanks to OP for all the hard work on making this more accessible. wish game developers were aware of blind gamers and would consider us from day 1, which would make creating accessible UIs much easier

Hey,

It has been a little while since I looked at this, but I wonder what happens when you tab around the Forge window? IT sounds like the Java access bridge, which is required for this app to work, isn't enabled.

To fix this, you need to go into your Java installation, which is usually c:\program files (x86)\oracle\java, or something along those lines, and you need to find the bin directory. Inside that will be a file named jabswitch.exe. You need to open that directory in a command prompt, and run jabswitch.exe, like this.

jab switch /enable.

It sounds difficult,but its' the kind of thing that should only be required once.

IF you do that and it says that the Java access bridge has been enabled, the app should hopefully start speaking a bit more.

I hope this helps, and that you can figure it out. It's a delightful game.

You can turn on accesbridge also from control panel.

Hi, just wanted to drop by and say that was the issue, I didn't have access bridge enabled, and when I got it enabled, everything started working, I just wanted to say thank you for the help, and I'm enjoying this game very much!

also will a live demo ever come out?