Hi, When I do puzzles I'd often like to continue playing against the computer. Is there a good way to do this? I can make a FEN and paiste it into a game against the computer, but can I just continuue against the computer from the puzzle itself.
Thanks, John
Complete the puzzle
click on "from game" in the bottom left
Make the first move of the puzzle by clicking forward on the game
Click on the three straight-line button in the bottom right
Then click on the crossed swords
Thanks for that. I'm blind so I wonder what the buttons you describe might be labelled for my screen reader to read out?
If I click on the 'From game' button I go to the game this puzzle was extracted from, is that right.
Thanks for any help.
Yes it will say something like "From game 3+0 • Blitz" click on the time control
Once you're on the game the position on the screen should be the start of the puzzle,
Then you go forward one move by pressing >| which is the move which gets played by the computer at the start of the puzzle
Then press ≡ to find the crossed swords
The easy part is: Opening the game the puzzle is from (link is in a complementory section in the time-control string after the text "From game") and going forward one move (by pressing "j" or the space bar or the right arrow key).
The next part might be very difficult: The button you need now is not reachable by tabbing through the page. I do not know whether there is another way of focusing or toggling it with the keyboard. My browser dev-tools accessibility-tab also say that the container the button is placed in is not WCAG standard compliant and that it might not be focusable using the keyboard.
The button is titled "menu" (with the language set to english) and opens a menu in the container the game notation is normaly in. In there is a button labeled "Continue from here". Again this button is not focusable by tabbing (while most of the other buttons in the menu are). The "Continue from here" button opens a modal dialog which lets you choose between playing a friend and playing the computer.
If you manage to come this far, the rest will probably be easy. If you choose playing the computer, you'll be in another modal dialog that allows you to choose the time-control, computer strenght and your color (all properly labeled and keyboard focusable). Choosing your color starts the game.
So to sum up: Lichess has a big accessibility problem for your use case. As a blind user you might be unable to do this until Lichess fixes it.
I just learned about Lichess' builtin accessibility mode / blind mode. Sadly, in blind mode the "menu" button is not focusable or otherwise usable by keyboard either. And additionally in blind mode the "menu" button is not even working when clicked with the mouse.
The problem of the "menu" button not being accessible by keyboard seems to be encompassed in this GitHub Issue:
github.com/lichess-org/lila/issues/9509 .
22 of 96 clickable elements that were not keyboard accessible have been marked as fixed in a time space of 2 years. Seems like this could still take a while.
The developers are usually very responsive when it comes to accessibility issues. I think you just found the list of items no one has expressed a need for yet.
