Messages
The message list is a list box. Up and down arrows move through it, Page Up and Page Down jump ten, and Home and End go to the oldest and newest. Show picks which kind of messages it lists.
In the message box, Enter sends and Shift+Enter starts a new line. Commands start with a slash, like /help. Shift+Tab from the message box goes back to the message list. Conversation picks where your message goes: chat, map chat, a private message or a group.
The map
Tab to the map, or click it, and the keys go to the game.
- Arrows walk, and holding one keeps walking. Hold Control to run.
- Q and E turn. Space jumps. Page Up and Page Down climb. A turns auto walk on and off, and Shift+A auto run. Escape opens the Game menu.
- In an elevator, Enter chooses a floor.
- Hold G and the movement keys move a camera instead of you, so you can look around by ear. Double-tap G to keep camera mode on. D says where the camera is.
- Enter reads signs, text squares, clocks and calendars, opens dialogs, doors, gates and passages, and takes travel points.
- Slash opens the message box and Backslash opens it on map chat. Send, or press Escape, and you're back in the map. Shift+Slash says who's online.
- Comma and Period read the previous and next message, and Shift with them goes to the first and last. The brackets move between buffers, Shift with them to the first and last, and Ctrl with them between conversations. Ctrl+M mutes or unmutes a buffer. Shift+Backslash saves your messages to a file.
- M says the map's name, and P who's near you.
- F1 statistics, F2 the message of the day (Shift+F2 in a box), F5 the online players menu, F7 chat channel, F8 online and offline sounds, H your health, Ctrl+P the player palette, Ctrl+L leaves the map, Ctrl+R retries a challenge, Ctrl+H the game's help. The Game menu button at the top has all of these too.
- Enter in a map's menu area opens the main menu, with public, tacked and challenge maps.
- F4 turns sign sounds on and off. Shift+F4 switches between a steady loop and a ping each step.
- R sits down or stands up.
- C says your coordinates, Z where you are, and F which way you face.
- On a side-on map, left and right walk, up jumps when there's room and climbs when there isn't, and down climbs down.
- Tab leaves the map.
On a mobile device, use the movement buttons under the map, since mobile screen readers don't pass the arrow keys to the page. With a keyboard on an iPhone, turn VoiceOver's Quick Nav off (Left and Right arrows together) so the arrows reach the map.
To have it open like an app, add it to your home screen. On Android, use Install on the login page or Install app in your browser's menu. On iPhone and iPad, open Safari's Share menu and choose Add to Home Screen.
Speech
Screen reader hands messages straight to your screen reader where the browser can, which is quicker. If you ever hear nothing, try Screen reader, compatibility mode. Browser voice speaks with the browser's own voice instead, which is usually the quickest and cuts itself off as soon as something new is said, but it's a different voice from your screen reader, with its own voice, rate, pitch and volume set up here, and doesn't reach braille.
Layouts
Sketchbook has everything on the page. Canvas fills the page with the map: Slash and Backslash pop up the message box, and Escape opens the Game menu for everything else. Blackboard is chat only, with the map hidden and silent. Pick one in Sound and reading settings or the Game menu.
Settings
3D audio places sounds in front, behind, above and below you in headphones, as the desktop's HRTF does. Turn it off for plain left and right panning, which keeps stereo sounds wider and is lighter on older devices.
Sound volume is everything. Map sound volume is ambiences and sounds placed on maps, and music volume is music maps play. Both are on top of the sound volume, as in the desktop game.
Keep running in the background is for mobile devices. It plays a silent sound while you're logged in, so the game stays connected while you use other apps or lock the screen. It uses a little more battery, so turn it off if you notice battery drain. It works well on Android. On iPhone it helps, but the device may still pause the page.
The message kinds you tick are read aloud and play a sound as they arrive. The others are still kept in the message list.
For more, type /help and open Web Client.