This is why I have not finished the audio wrapper around Mudlet's sound functions. I have made enough to suit my needs and I don't care about anyone else because of the behaviors you've laid out here. I can't even describe the feeling I get when I see blind drama start to take over a MUD. It's like an infestation. It's infuriating, it's disappointing, it's sickening, it's sadness and despair all rolled up into one bundle of unpleasantness.
I've written two Mudlet packages, which were more like lazy ports of Mushclient ones. Basically the CTRL+numbers feature of output functions, and some of the features of channel history. I did the bare minimum to get them working and made sure they fit my needs, then I threw them up on github in case anyone else wanted to continue work or simply have access to them. But yeah, my motivation to do anything for the blind community is so low it might as well be considered nil.
But you know what sucks worse than the feelings I've described above? Watching MUD admins go from excitement about doing accessibility work to basically feeling what I'm feeling because they threw open the door and welcomed the blind community with open arms and what they got is a bunch of misbehaving miscreants who not only keep asking the admins about soundpacks, but bring their flavor of drama onto a game that was pretty chill before the influx of blind people. Then what you end up seeing is that the behavior in question drives sighted people away and now all you have left is a few devout players mixed in with the new blind riffraff.
These people are throwing water on an already dying fire. Look, I know I've thrown a lot of shade in here, so, if you're a blind person who plays MUDs, enjoys them and is just there to chill and have fun, I'm not aiming any of this at you. But, for those who I am talking about, I really wish you'd knock it the hell off and stay away from MUDs if you can't at least emulate how an adult should behave.
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