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Minecraft Access

Minecraft Access

A mod that adds accessibility feature for visually impaired screen reader users.

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All versionsMinecraft Access v1.9.0-beta.1 for Fabric

Minecraft Access v1.9.0-beta.1 for Fabric

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New Features

  • Speak current perspective when switched to #314
  • Blocks and entities can now be narrated with Jade, providing much more detailed information.
  • Add basic aim assist for bows (temporarily lock onto the nearest hostile mob when drawing a bow, play sounds indicating how much the bow has been drawn and if the target can be shot)
  • Implement mouse simulation on MacOS
  • Implement speech support on MacOS with queuing and interruption support
  • Add a speech settings config menu with a speech rate option for changing the speech rate on MacOS
  • Warn the user if Minecraft has not been granted the accessibility permission, which is needed for mouse simulation to work
  • Each function in the access menu can now be bound as a key on your keyboard (all unbound by default aside from narrate target)
  • HealthNHunger is now player status
  • Made the readout of player status more concise which also delivers values faster
  • This includes new information like air, frost exposure, armor, and absorption hearts
  • Added a warning for when frost exposure gets above a configurable value (default 30%)
  • Hold Alt+R to hear only conditional information like air and frost exposure
  • Renamed enableHealthNHunger in the config to enablePlayerStatus (THIS IS A BREAKING CHANGE)

Feature Updates

  • Vault and Trial Spawner are added as POI blocks #306
  • Remove Position Narrator Format config since it seems duplicate with single number narrating formats
  • The narration menu function key key is now deprecated, and has been replaced by the narrate target key as each thing can be bound independently
  • The narrator menu was renamed to the access menu to avoid confusion with the existing narrator feature in Microsoft products
  • BREAKING CHANGES: Rename Narrator Menu aka F4 Menu to Access Menu
  • Access Menu: Access Menu functions can be triggered with Alt + upper number keys
  • Your pets, other's pets, bosses, players, and vehicles now have their own sounds
  • Dropped item detection also now extends to projectiles on the ground which can be picked up like arrows and tridents
  • Air is now measured roughly in seconds remaining, as it is not clear how fast air ticks down for blind players usually
  • The default air threshold is now 5 seconds of air remaining, which is roughly the same overall percentage (30%) air remaining
  • The mod now announces the biome you entered when you join a world instead of the xp level.

Bug Fixes

  • Let Enable Facing Direction config controls auto direction speaking in Camera Controls #327
  • Make the Look Straight Back key combination (left alt + numpad 5) works again #328
  • You can now hold down keys without them speaking their output over and over
  • Fixed smithing table slots being mislabele
  • Some neutral mobs are now recognized as hostile when angry like wolves, instead of always being passive
  • Fix equipment narration triggering even if entity doesn't have equipment
  • When the locked on block is destroyed, it will automatically be unlocked

Translation Changes

  • Add four items for speaking perspectives I18N PR 37
  • Add translation identifiers for the speech settings and speech rate buttons in the configuration menu
  • Add a translation identifier for the warning about the accessibility permission not being granted on MacOS
  • Changed narrator menu strings to access menu
  • Added new strings for all the additional access functions you can bind
  • Added 2 new keys for the smithing table and removed the now unused one
  • Change air related I18N text for Health And Hunger changes
  • Weblate is now used for translations.
  • Renamed strings from HealthNHunger to Player Status
  • Reordered existing strings like player_status.formatted
  • Added new strings to allow for conditional information to be optionally included for frost and air
  • Added high frost exposure warning string
  • Removed coppied strings that were already in use in vanilla, mainly the seperate color strings that Minecraft access had which vanilla translation already provides.
  • GUI slot directions are now dynamically translated, instead of being stored on world load
  • Show craftable and show all strings are now translated by the vanilla game in the recipe book instead of being hard coded
  • The message that your screen reader was refreshed successfully can now be translated into other languages

Others

  • Updated modpack setup instructions to describe when users might want or need a screenreader such as NVDA or JAWS.
  • Added an error message when trying to run the mod server-side

Support 1.21.4

This mod doesn't yet support new features such as crafter and pale garden, but at least you can play the latest version now! Compatibility for 1.21.4:

  • Minecraft: 1.21.4 (read setup guide))
  • Fabric Loader: >=0.16.9 (download Fabric Loader)
  • NeoForge: 21.4.33-beta (download NeoForge installer)
  • Java: >=21 (download x64 Windows installer, download page for all Operating Systems)

Files

minecraft-access-1.9.0-beta.1+fabric.jar(2.81 MiB) Primary
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Beta

Version number

1.9.0-beta.1+fabric

Loaders

Fabric

Game versions

1.21.4

Downloads

43

Publication date

December 23, 2024 at 8:09 AM

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