Hi Sarah,
It is sad to say, but many sighted people don't even know blind people
can use computers let alone games. I remember being at a conference a
couple of years back with my headphones plugged in to my laptop, taking
down notes, and someone walked up to me and asked if I was blind.I
responded yes, and the very next question was how was I using the
computer without seeing what was on the screen.
I then had to go in to a discussion about Window Eyes and other screen
readers I was using to use that laptop.
Over the past couple of years I have showed sighted people SOD, Tank
Commander, Troopenum, and other games and everytime the responce was
something along the lines the person didn't know that was possible, or
that is amazing. "How do you do that with only sound?"
It seams most sighted people can't get past their eye-balls. They ignore
or miss many sounds we take for granted like hearing if something is
left or right, or pitch changes in targeting beeps.
FigureInTheCloak wrote:
> You know, I think that part of the problem is lack of awareness in the
> mainstream, sighted world, that there are Blind people who enjoy gaming.
> Most of the sighted people I've met, when they think of gaming, they
> think
> of highly graphical games, like Dance Revolution or Grand Theft Auto
> and the
> like, and they automatically assume that people who can't see wouldn't be
> interested in gaming. We need to change that perception big time.
>
> Anyway, what'd be really cool, I think, would be to have a blind
> gamers' and
> accessible games area incorporated into a mainstream gaming convention.
> I've never been to one, so I have no idea what gaming cons are out
> there at
> which such a thing might be done. I just got to thinking about how,
> recently here in my home city we had an anime and gaming convention,
> and I
> thought how awesome it would be to have a blind gamers' presence at
> something like that too.
>
> Anybody else get what I mean?
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