I aggree fully with tom.
now question is how do we do that.
firstly other disabilities.
I know of them physical, interlectial and a few other things.
I do not know how to adapt for them though and even if we did that,
how would get abled people on our side in a big way.
Ideally we need the power and cash for sound licencing and other
licencing as well as any suits and legal ranglings we need to handle
in the real world.
Lets face it we don't have the resources to even come close to licencing.
And if we get sued we have to fall over and grovel like the poor
helpless blind we are!
I am not sure how we can build the power to hold our own but right
now we may as well shoot fish in a barrel.
The only reason we are not being sued left and right and centre is we
are viewed as poor and helpless.
We are not worth bothering with.
Now what happens when we become worth bothering with.
Thats fine if we can fight back but I doubt we can or at least a
single of us could even for normals its like this but what sort of
group could be able to handle a fight should we need it to.
I am not sure about all of us but quite a few of us are actually
getting support from the governments of our country so in essence the
government tells us what we do or they stop helping.
If we can't stand on our own what chance do we have of becoming to
well known and not being able to tish out the punnishment ourselves.
it may be better to be poor and helpless because no one hardly does
dish on us right now.
And if we wish to become well known we will need to or bump into
this more frequently and sooner rather than later.
Even the normal powerfulls fight sometimes they loose sometimes they win.
d difference is if they win or loose they may loose reputation and
some cash but can for the most part continue fighting.
If we ever got to the point even if we were able to fight, if we
lost, then thats it we would probably be done.
And it would have to be a big group.
World wide we may have a chance but who knows.
At 04:45 AM 10/31/2013, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
Well, that's precisely the problem. A lot of audio games etc are
developed especially for the blind and while that does not in of
itself preclude sighted users from playing the word blind has a
negative stigma attached to it which can adversely effect their
opinion of the game or games at hand.
Take for instance the games like Run for President, Destination Mars,
Atlantic City Blackjack, and so on. On the face of it those are just
Dos text games with some sounds. If called text games a sighted user
would accept it as that. Call them a "blind game" and immediately they
will probably draw the wrong conclusion about the game and assume it
is exclusively a blind thing which isn't true.
The point being coming out and saying this or that game is made for
the blind can and probably will carry negative connotations weather
intended or not. What we need to do is use more inclusive language
that makes sighted gamers share in our experience rather than isolate
them. Make people aware they are accessible to a visually impaired
user, but include it more as a feature rather than its soul purpose
for existing. :D
I think what we need to do here is broaden our horizons and go above
and beyond thinking of just blind friendly games. We could do more to
think about accessibility in general and how to bring together people
with other disabilities too who may not be able to play standard
mainstream games for some other reason besides blindness.
Cheers!
On 10/30/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
> That's because of who they are designed for. The blind. No negativity
> intended. The problem might be the way in which the word "blind" is taken.
>
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