[Rsgames-beta] some scrabble questions and bugs

[Alex Wallis]

Hi,
i'm not sure if this is the right place to report scrabble bugs but I 
also have some questions and ideas for improvements.
The documentation doesn't say the maximum number of players you can have 
in a game this would be helpful to know.
Next, are there any plans to add graphics to the game, or does the rs 
games web client offer graphics?
the reason I ask is because I would like to play with my sighted 
parents, but I can tell you for sure they will not play without graphics 
they need to be able to have something to help them visually understand 
the board.
Unfortunately this is one area that there is a distinct lack of games 
that sighted people will enjoy playing online with VI players, I tried 
with my sighted partner and she didn't get on with rs games unfortunately.

Now on to a few bugs and feature suggestions, I have found that if I 
enable the phonetic mode pressing p will not turn it off, jaws says that 
it has turned off but it remains stuck on.
I also got an error which has been saved in a log but can't remember 
where it is stored or where to email it, maybe it would be good if the 
client could automatically submit these error logs.

I do also have a number of suggestions having played scrabble, I would 
like to see a keystroke to automatically move me to the last played 
word, another to allow searching the board for a particular letter, and 
others to help find nearby squares that increase the score for words and 
letters. at the moment it can be very time consuming finding these, 
because of the fact that jaws always says that a square is blank 
followed by if there is anything special about the square.

another thought I have had is, I know normally scrabble doesn't use 
coordinates for squares, but I would find it really helpful if squares 
could be given row and column coordinates such as a1, b1, c1 etc, I was 
getting very lost on the board sometimes.
Another thing I have found very irritating is exploring the board when 
it wasn't my turn, finding where I wanted to put a word but as soon as 
it moves to my turn I get jumped back to the centre and so lose my place 
really ruins the forward planning element.
Alex.