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From: shaun everiss
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 2:24 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey Magazine
well I think the word blind could be substatuted as graphicless.
after all being blind is in fact not far from the truth of being
graphicless or imagless.
We are for the most part only audio enabled.
I joke with my computer and hacker friends when they ask me what is
being blind like.
And I say, no video card, no tv card, no screen just a box and speakers.
At 01:44 AM 10/31/2013, you 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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