Accessibility improvements and features

[Blades4119]

Brief summary of issue / Description of requested feature:

adding the ability to use sound packs and fully interface with screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA

Steps to reproduce the issue / Reasons for adding feature:

1. sound packs would allow blind and visually impaired users the ability to use mudlet to access more MUD's
2. being able to fully interface with screen readers would allow blind and visually impaired users to make use of mudlet as a client

Error output / Expected result of feature

These features would open up mudlet as a client for blind and visually impaired users to access their desired MUD's and MOO's

Extra information, such as Mudlet version, operating system and ideas for how to solve / implement:

[demonnic]

Mudlet has support for MSP (https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Supported_Protocols#MSP) to facilitate games sending sound information, including where to download the sound files, when to play them, etc specifically for this purpose. I'm not able to think of the name of a game which has fully implemented support for this though.

Outside of that, Mudlet is capable of playing sounds via triggers and Lua scripts, and packages can include them, so sound packs are certainly something which can be created and made available for various games which don't wish to implement MSP itself, but I'm not sure what a one-sound-pack-fits-most solution would look like.

As for screen reader support I agree it would be awesome to have, and we have a long standing issue for adding that support to Mudlet #3342 . Including a pay out to anyone who is able to add that support for us. It's been attempted a few times and is a bit of a heavy lift due to Mudlet's custom display. So there's a lot of things which have to be wired up in order to get proper screen reader support, and so far it's not something we've been able to manifest. I know at least a couple of us have made more than one failed attempt. But it's definitely something we'd love to get into Mudlet.

[mpconley]

Mudlet is ready for sound with both MSP (old school) and MCMP (sound via GMCP). Mud admins only need to provide instructions to their players on how to use the sound packs for their games with Mudlet, like they do for other clients. Sounds get stored in the media folder under the name of the profile. Mudlet could automatically download sounds from websites given the right direction using MSP or MCMP. Or someone could unzip a sound pack into the media folder.

[vadi2]

I believe this is fixed in latest PTBs. If you're still having issues with this, please let us know!