Always assuming of course that they can get past the lack of graphical cues
for what's going on.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:13 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine
Hi Dark,
That is pretty much how I feel about it as well. I don't have a
problem with stating that a game is accessible to blind gamers as long
as it is written in such a way to make sighted mainstream gamers aware
that the game is playable by them as well. The point is not to
emphasize the blind friendly design over all else.
Take for example a game like Sryth. Now, that happens to be a standard
mainstream browser based game that happens to be accessible to the
blind. The difference is how it is presented to its customers. If the
author had advertised it as this new fangled blind browser based RPG
chances are many sighted players would have given it a pass just
because it was advertised as being exclusively for the blind. However,
since it was marketed as a mainstream game and it was accessible
Sryth benefits from a wide range of sighted and blind players on a
regular basis. I think we need to begin developing games with a more
mainstream audience in mind while keeping accessibility standards
high.
Cheers!
On 10/30/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi Tom.
It is what I actually wrote in the 4th chapter of my phd. The over
whelming
social reaction to any sort of disability is that it's something
different,
that a person with none working body parts or a medical condition that
causes them to live life differently is intrinsically another sort of
human
being, and the more people emphasise differences the more evident they may
be.
At the same timeI however, I do think it's legitimate to talk about
"accessibility for blind/visually impared gamers" and to hold audio or
text
games responsable to include it.
It's a balance question really, but certainly on the front of site, and in
intraductory material access should come at the end of remarks about
possibilities of text and audio, not at the start so that the games
themselves are the focus not "blind gamers"
Indeed, I personally really dislike any applying of the word blind to
objects. Reever, My dog is a guide dog not a blind dog (a blind dog really
wouldn't be much help with mobility), I do not have a blind computer,
blind
cane, or blind anything else.
I have various peaces of equipment and software that assist me! to fulfill
my desires in life as a visually impared individual, but since none of
those
things themselves can see, the word "blind" is incorrect to apply to them.
Indeed if you don't mind me referring to my own research again, this is
also
why I would love to see the word "accessibility" become a more common one.
After all, a person with a condition like dispraxia or dislexia who finds
complex graphics and 3D spacial relations hard to comprehend would equally
bennifit from audio and synthesisor friendly text based games.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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