Minecraft Access

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• The narration menu function key key is now deprecated, and has been replaced by the narrate target key as each thing can be bound independently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)