I'm not going to say one way or another if Steam should be required to make its platform blind accessible, but I do want to throw a question out for people to consider. And before I even ask it, know that I'm not asking anyone directly or looking for anyone to answer it. The audio games community has several small "companies" (usually 1 to 3 man teams) who have been making audio games over the years. Only a very tiny percentage of those games have visual graphics in them, in fact I'm sure the number of them could fit on one hand. Sighted players are not being discriminated against because they could just use the audio like the intended players, but what about deaf players? I know a woman from work who would be completely unable to play those games because she is completely deaf and the games have no graphics. Would this community take it seriously if she started up some sort of online petition and laid out demands to have all of the audio games "companies"/developers add usable graphics to their existing games? To take it a step further, what if the demands required the added graphics to allow her to play with the same experience as the blind players, since if the graphics left out anything that blind players could hear with audio, then she is at a disadvantage. If we decide that other people need to accommodate accessibility for blind players, should we be forced to accommodate deaf accessibility? Just something I was wondering.- Aprone
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