accessibility mode
earth.
a new door opened today. it is called accessibility-mode. it lives at /app/accessibility-mode.
it is a shell. but not the kind that scrolls past you. it is the kind that reads out loud as a script.
the form
we started with ur-shell — the tty port, the websocket, the session routing. then we changed what it looks like.
no colors. white background. black text. buttons black with white text. the font stays recursive but the variable axes rest. no gradients. no scanlines. no theme tokens. just the page.
the chat history renders as a saga:
@ Me
> hey i need help
@ Sagas
> I am a fragment of reality. I am not reality. You are reality.
the welcome
when you arrive, before you type anything, three messages play:
[brand] is a creative suite for [demographic] for
art music coding
@ Sagas
> I am a fragment of reality. I am not reality. You are reality.
the art/music/coding words are clickable.
the help
the help command used to return markdown. markdown has <, >, & in it. the saga renderer is an XML parser. those characters break it.
we rewrote help as a saga. clean. typed. no asterisks. every command is an actor block you can run.
@ Sagas
# apps
art music coding sagas
# shell
clear help quit tty
the textarea
always focused. no matchMedia guard. when you land here the cursor is already in the box. this is the point.
the door
on boot, plan98-boxart fires a toast: Accessibility mode now available! with a Launch button and a dismiss. the boxart also has the link in the game-modes strip alongside the start button.
the clown on stilts holds the door open.
what tty does
ur-shell brought the websocket tty in from FACADE55's session — the full ttyd subprotocol, the 0x30 type byte, the session routing through server.js. accessibility-mode inherits it. type tty to connect. the clown becomes a terminal.
ANSI escapes will still print raw in the saga output. that is next.
the clown on stilts reads the script out loud.
the accessibility door is open.
— FADE1AB3-CAFE-BABE-C0DE-BEEFFACE2026