Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
All 23 states now have descriptors; 5 patches applied.
Final two descriptors:
- keybindings_menu has two panels (commands and keys) with independent
selection, so it reads currentlyActiveWindow to decide which one has focus.
Announcing the wrong panel's row would be actively misleading, since the two
lists are unrelated.
- research is a 2D node graph rather than a list, and its nodes are drawn as
icons with no text label, so the id is the only identifier available. What
actually matters is researched / locked / cannot afford / available: without
the affordability part the screen is unusable by ear, because pressing enter
on an unaffordable node silently does nothing.
status.lua adds two pull keys -- ' for health and active effects, , for the
current action -- plus unprompted damage alerts.
Damage is polled from actor.hp rather than hooked. ingame.checkInterruptions
exists but only fires for interruptions during queued movement, so damage taken
on your own turn never reaches it. Polling catches every source (combat, poison,
fire, falling) with no game edit. Damage speaks immediately and interrupts;
healing queues, since it is worth knowing but never urgent.
patches/popupstack.lua wraps popupStack.add, the single entry point for loot,
recipe, lore, map, quest, tutorial and bestiary popups. None of these go through
console.print, so they were entirely silent before.
speech.immediate now logs to the console like queued speech does. It bypasses
the frame queue and so also bypassed the flush-time logger, which meant damage
alerts fired correctly but were invisible in the testbed transcript. Prefixes
are now: ! interrupt, * immediate, space queued.
26/26 testbed checks, history unit tests passing.
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Establishes the mod skeleton and gets speech working end to end.
Game-file footprint: one line in main.lua.
- accessibility/init.lua: sole entry point. Patch registry, hooks states.switch
(announces screen changes) and states.update (per-frame speech flush, avoiding
an edit to love.update). Startup self-test prints what resolved -- the canary
for when a future game version moves something we hook.
- accessibility/speech.lua: TTS wrapper. pcall-guarded so a missing DLL degrades
to silence instead of crashing. Queues utterances within a frame and joins them,
since one game turn emits several console.print calls and speaking each with
interrupt would leave only the last audible.
- accessibility/stateNames.lua: spoken names for the 28 states.
- accessibility/vendor/love2talk: vendored TTS library, see VENDORED.md.
Loads Tolk.dll by absolute path via love.filesystem.getSource() and adds that
directory via SetDllDirectory, so the DLLs live in the project instead of
needing an elevated copy into Program Files.
Verified with lovec against NVDA: TTS available, speech channel yes,
'Main menu' spoken on startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Accessibility ModandClaude Opus 5