Accessibility option: Accessible readouts

[SeanMirrsen]

Following the discussion here, I'll be making a list of reasonably small changes and additions to the game that would make the game more playable for players who are forced to use screen-reader software to "see" the game screen due to disabilities of vision. All of this obviously applies only to "console" builds of the game.

• Accessible readouts - In combination with the log-less mode, there will be enough empty space on the sidebar to display some information that can't be easily tracked via screen-reader software. Things like the current sight radius in tiles, the heading of the currently driven vehicle, the direction and distance to nearest hostile monster, etc. Also in this mode, heavily symbolized readouts in the status section of the sidebar could be converted to plain text, like time-of-day tracking, non-numeric healthbars (would display readable, if shortened, descriptions, like "GOOD", "INJURD", "MNGLD", etc., to make the change of status easier to track).

(Split from #15864)

[lucianposton]

Along with readouts, disabling unnecessary animations like weather and WoW-style damage indicators would probably be a good idea e.g. in an accessibility option/mode. Annoying af having every rain drop dictated to you until you realize what's happening and find how to disable it. 😤

[BlindGuyNW]

I’ve already disabled weather. :)

From a certain point of view I don’t like the idea of an accessibility-specific mode. THat’s more a philosophical issue from my day job though.

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[Leland]

Closing - old and no movement. Feel free to ping me here if there's still interest, or make a new issue.

FWIW, I'm all for this. Hope the game improves its accessibility.

[BlindGuyNW]

Hey, I just started getting back into CDDA actually. :) I’ve been trying to figure out vehicles. Readouts could definitely help with that, because the way the ascii deforms is really confusing. Sadly, I don’t know how much more interest there will be from other blind people, just because the game is niche to begin with.

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[kevingranade]

Actually I like to keep this one open.