Yes, give it a try!
I think even the golden cursor hotspots will work for you
Just don't forget to maximize the client

DRG,

The bookmarks are useful when you actually get to a match. To get back from the quest screen, you need to click on "Constructed," which is one of the menu items in that same area as Quest, pUzzle, etc. In general, clicking on these expands or collapses them.

JaceK,

That is a checkbox, I believe. You can activate those the way you normally would, in addition to clicking on them. You can also use nvda-enter or tab to them and press space.

What you're missing in this case is probably routing the mouse to the place where your NVDA cursor is, with NVDA-shift-M or nada-slash. You need to generally do this to highlight cards, click on labels which don't respond properly to keyboard commands, etc. Just press nvda-shift-M or nvda-numpad-slash before you click.

JaceK,

I'm glad you got it working. I've been curious about plane chase for a while but never really played a game in it.

One thing I know for sure is that the current handling of selecting cards from zones is a little confusing, the list of selectable places sometimes pops underneath the window for the main game, so it isn't obvious that something has happened. THis doesn't happen super often but I'm going to work on fixing it.

As another tip, if you get lost, always close the log window which is by far the largest area of the window. I always run with the stack window open and occasionally combat, when that phase comes up.

Hey @Zklein:

Do I need the Golden Cursor stuff for the S key to get to the stack window or not? If not is there any way to jump to it?

Sorry for the double post. Regarding Golden Cursor, what I've done personally for the game in the past was set bookmarks to the titles of the various windows, so that you'd have one for your hand, one for your opponent's field, etc. It wasn't 100% reliable but works well enough.

So is there a list of keyboard shortcuts?

Hi All,

I thought I'd try something a bit different than my usual and talk a little about what's currently possible, where my accessibility efforts are focused next, that kind of thing.

At the moment, it is possible to play a complete game of MTG with FOrge, though winning is another matter. It is possible to  draft a deck or participate in a sealed tournament, read card information, and generally navigate 95% of the UI.

It isn't really easy to do many of these things, just because the game UI was not designed for keyboard users, and that includes people using screen readers. My goals for the next while are consequently related. I want to make the experience easier  if I can. Here are a few ideas I have for doing that…

I hope to improve the deck selection experience over the next day or so, at the moment it's a little confusing, and once that's done I Can focus on other areas.

One thing I have thought which might make things smoother is making it possible to read details about cards in a user's hand without having to go to the card details pane to do so. I'm not quite sure what approach to take, maybe listing card name, type, and cost info in the accessible description, so that it gets read out much like tap status is now. I'd leave special abilities for the details area, which is potentially much longer, depending on the card.

Another area i Want to improve is the log window. Currently this is probably the most annoying part of the game, in that NVDA slows down considerably when a user enters it. This is because of the way the game log is implemented, it's a scrollable list of, potentially, hundreds of text fields, one per log entry. I can probably improve this, just not quite sure of the best way to do so yet.

Finally, I want to record a demo. I would like to do this fairly soon, if only because people have expressed interest in the game, and I believe it's quite possible to enjoy it even as it stands now. I'm going to make that my main goal for this holiday weekend here in the states.

I hope this has been informative, if not entertaining. I'll keep everyone updated on my progress, and hope to have good news to share with you fairly soon.

Alan,

I'll hopefully get a demo up this weekend, but here's a quick description of the way the UI works. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Magic, but I'll assume you've at least read the basic rules, or at any rate can do so if you feel like it.

The Forge UI is basically split into a bunch of small windows. These run more or less as follows.

• Your hand. This one is obvious, it's all the cards you currently have available to play. Typically, you can keep  up to seven cards.

• Your field. This is where creatures, lands, and other cards are played. You can also find status information here, such as the number of cards in your library, life points, etc. Also in the field you'll find a set of phase toggles, which are useful for speeding up gameplay if you don't want to be prompted to play cards in certain phases. By default they are all enabled, which means you will be prompted to play cards in every phase. Fiddling with them is a somewhat advanced topic.

• Your opponent's field. This is pretty much identical to yours, except it's where their cards are played. They also have a set of phase toggles you can switch, for when it's their turn.

• Card Detail. This is where you find info about whatever card your mouse is hovering over at the moment. Most importantly, mana costs and card text are listed here. There's also information about cards power and toughness or loyalty, depending on the kind of card, as well as some less immediately important data about where the card came from and how common it is.

• Game log. This is important, it's the window where everything that happens is shown. It's also the most annoying, because at the moment it's basically a bunch of tiny text fields, and it's easy to get lost in it. You'll want to approach it from the right, as that's the bottom-most log entry. To make this easier to do, open the stack and then move right of that, and then open the log, as it shares the same space.

• The stack. This is where spells and effects are resolved. It's another series of text fields, though generally far smaller than the log. Most of the time, it's closed if you don't need to see it.

• Combat. This is a window which lists information about creatures attacking you, or which you are using to attack. It shares a space with the stack and the log.

• Prompt. This is where you are told information about who's turn it is, who has  priority for placing things on the stack, and so forth. It's also where you go to advance through  phases when you have nothing to do, just press Ok to pass priority or "end turn," next to it, if you don't want to be prompted for any of the following phases.

There are a couple windows and controls which are less commonly used,  such as the dock and the card picture window, but those can generally be ignored by totally blind players.

So the general game flow is like this…

You start a game, which I will demonstrate in the demo, but basically involves selecting a game format and decks for yourself and the AI.

You have a virtual coin toss to decide who will go first.

IF you win, you decide whether you want to play first or draw a card, using the prompt window.

You then get your first look at your hand, and can decide whether to keep it or to take a mulligan, which will let you discard it, draw another hand, and then discard one card from that hand. You might want to do this if you had no land cards, for instance.

When it's your turn, you play cards by selecting them with the NVDA cursor, and then moving the mouse to them with NVDA-shift-M, or nvda-numpad-slash. This is necessary because the card details panel only shows information for the card currently highlighted with the mouse. You can check the details if you're ever unsure about what a card does, it doesn't have to be your card. Just click on the cards you want to play, whether they're on the field or in your hand.

When you're done, you press OK on the prompt window, or end turn. You listen to the sounds indicating what your opponent does, possibly checking the log or stack window to see what they've played. The process repeats with occasional variations, going turn by turn.

Basically, you use the NVDA review cursor to navigate the screens. Each little window is preceded by a title to its left, such as "Zack hand," or "Card detail." To the right of the title is that window's contents, whatever it happens to be.

I hope this helps, and will definitely try to explain more in my demo.

I just want to say thankyou so much man, a tear is in my eye right now, you don't know how bad I been wanting to play this game....I haven't downloaded yet, waiting for all the kinks to be worked out....but you can search this forum and see how I have been begging on hands and knees for another tcg other than yugioh and pokemon, that's the only thing we had for YEARS(all caps)

@Smoovgunner Where do you play pokemon TCG? 
Doesn't Ravaged Worlds also count?

Anyway, also looking forward to seeing where this goes.

hello. what is magic?
and how to play it?
where do i learn it and how do i get it
thanks in the advanced