Making Hades Accessible

This guide will show you how to install and use the Hades accessibility mods.

Note: This guide assumes that you have hades already installed. If you need help with hades’s installation, your search engine of choice is the answer.

extra note: This guide will focus on the steam build because it’s the most used client among the blind.

Requirements

· Before installing the mods, make sure to grab python version 3.9 or hire from Python's website.

· NVDA or Jaws or any screen reader with OCR capabilities.

Installing the Mods on Windows

• Extract the zip file to an area of your choosing and copy the content folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hades
• Hit continue when asked to replace the items inside the content folder.
• Go to the content folder and locate modimporter.py and run it.
• If the mods are installed successfully, you’ll see a text saying: 1 base. file imports a total of 9 mod files.

Mod Keystrokes

Game Controller

Hit the select button on your Xbox controller to get to the following menus:

• D-pad up to check your resources such as health, darkness, etc.
• D-pad down to open up the rewards menu to access rewards such as those that pop up after completing a chamber and god boons at the start of a run. You can also use this menu to access infernal troves, both pools of purging and wells of Charon, as well as the curing poison fountains at the temple of sticx during a chamber run. Note: each item in the rewards menu can be selected by pressing The A key on your controller. You’ll be teleported to the item that you’ve chosen and you can interact with it by pressing the interact button (RB) on your controller.
• D-pad right to access the items in Charon’s shop. Note: Press A to teleport to the selected item on the menu and interact with it by using the interact button (RB) on your controller.
• D-pad left to access the doors menu. Note: when a door is selected, you're automaticly teleported to it.
• Press LB then D-pad up on your controller to access the relationships menu.

You can press B on your controller to exit out of a menu without selecting anything.

Note: each menu can be read using OCr. The resources and relationships menus can’t be interacted with. While in the House of Hades, hitting the select button instantly brings up the rewards menu, and hitting the special attack button (Y) on the controller brings up the resources menu. These keystrokes are specific only while within the House of Hades.

Keyboard

Press b on your keyboard and the following keys to access the following menus:

• w to check your resources such as health, darkness, etc.

• s to open up the rewards menu to access rewards such as those that pop up after completing a chamber. You can also use this menu to access god boons at the start of a run. Also this menu can access infernal troves, both pools of purging and wells of Charon, as well as the curing poison fountains at the temple of stix during a chamber run. Note: each item in the rewards menu can be selected by pressing The spacebar on your keyboard. You’ll be teleported to the item that you’ve chosen and you can interact with it by pressing e.

• d to access the items in Charon’s shop. Note: Press the spacebar to teleport to the selected item on the menu and interact with it by pressing E.

• a to access the doors menu. When a door is selected, you're automaticly teleported to it.

• c then w to access the relationships menu.

Note: You can press backspace to exit out of a menu without selecting anything. While in the House of Hades, hitting the b key on the keyboard instantly brings up the rewards menu, and hitting the special attack key (q) on the keyboard brings up the resources menu. These keystrokes are specific only while within the House of Hades.

Extra note: JAWS users: Note that JAWS intercepts the escape and backspace keys, so if you need to pause or cancel, either use key pass-through, or use shift-escape and shift-backspace instead.

Passive Mods

There are two mods in the package which do not have keystrokes, as they work in the background:

• NoTrapDamage: Makes Zagreus immune to damage from traps and standing magma. It is near impossible for a blind player to avoid these, so the mod prevents them getting in the way of gameplay.
• GodGaugeSounds: Plays audible cues to indicate the charging status of the god gauge, which is used by Zagreus to evoke a god's aid. As the gauge charges, a ding is played to indicate one charge is available, 2 dings when 2 charges are available, etc., until the entire gauge is full to maximum, at which point a more prominent alert is played.

  Extra Resources

  Aaron77 and hllf worked on an excellent hades video tutorial which you can find here.

  Credits

  developers of hades accessible mods: hllf and JLove.

  developer of mod importer and ModUtil: MagicGonads on nexus mods.

  ReadMe: Ryok