VIP MUD  [client]
A commercial Windows client built for blind players from the ground up. It names
seven screen readers — and publishes almost nothing about its protocol support.
https://www.gmagames.com/vipmud.shtml
Runs on: Windows

Capabilities
  Read off each project's own documentation, not measured by us — a client has
  no handshake for us to observe. "unknown" means we looked and did not
  establish it. It never means no.

  screen reader    yes
      https://www.gmagames.com/vipmud.shtml
  TLS              unknown
  UTF-8            unknown
  MCCP             unknown
  GMCP             unknown
  MSDP             unknown
  ATCP             unknown
  MXP              unknown
  MSP              yes
      https://www.gmagames.com/vipmud.shtml
  scripting        yes
      https://www.gmagames.com/vipmud.shtml

  7 of 10 rows are unknown: we did not find the project's own documentation
  saying either way. A short honest table beats a long guessed one.

VIP Mud is the one client in this section whose entire design premise is
accessibility. It is commercial — thirty dollars, with a thirty-day full trial
after which it keeps working with a reduced feature set — and it is a Windows
program.

It is the strongest accessibility claim here by a distance, and unusually it is
specific. The product page names JAWS, Window-Eyes, System Access, NVDA, Cobra,
SuperNova/Hal and Microsoft SAPI as working out of the box, and describes
features that only make sense if you have thought hard about the problem:
different voices per window and per output type, gagging spam from speech while
still showing it, and several methods of suppressing ASCII art — which is the
single most hostile thing a MUD sends to a screen reader.

WHY THE REST OF THE TABLE IS EMPTY

Because the vendor publishes a marketing page and not a manual. Nothing on it
mentions GMCP, MSDP, MCCP, MXP, ATCP, TLS or character encoding; it describes
the product as "a Telnet-based client" and leaves it there. Nine unknowns in a
row is not a verdict on the software. It is what a matrix looks like when the
only available source is one page, and publishing it as nine noes would be a lie
about a product that may well do all of it.

Two further things we could not establish: any release date for the current
version, and whether it is still under active development — the vendor was
acquired in February 2025, and the product page carries a 2016 copyright.

See also
  Mudlet — /reference/clients/mudlet
  Blightmud — /reference/clients/blightmud