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Author Topic: Make DF more friendly for the BLind  (Read 732 times)

zkline

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Make DF more friendly for the BLind
« on: May 03, 2017, 04:23:37 pm »

THere's lots of discussion in this thread, about making DF more accessible for the visually impaired. Two small items which have come up that would help immensely are allowing the PC terminal cursor to follow the player character or selected tile, and disabling the constant blinking characters.

These two changes would make adventure mode a lot more playable for me under Linux. Fortress mode is harder for obvious reasons, but I believe it isn't impossible.

The PC cursor fix in particular is just a matter of ensuring the right function is called when the turn is processed. This only applies to text/Curses mode, but the SDL version has its own accessibility issues and probably wouldn't work for me anyway without extensive work.
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