Me too. And i'll be thirty next year. Quite depressing sometimes. I have a
feeling that by the time accessibility is ever a standard feature in
mainstream games or that it's decided that it would be worthwhile to make a
sidemarket for them, I'll be too old and set in my ways, the same as the
unlikely event that a car is ever designed that a totally blind person could
drive totally independently and safely.
Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza?
Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash.
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From: "shaun everiss" <shau...@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Future of accessible games
<sigh>
its a shame I will be middle aged or so before that even starts, heck I
may be dead before anything happens, that really is just suckfull.
I have actually no idea what will happen if I really get a real job.
I have time to bother with email lists, podcasts, etc.
But I wander what would happen if I ever got a real job, like one that
took most of the week.
I wander if I would just go away, scary that.
Never contemplated going off gaming but have to concider it.
At 07:02 a.m. 8/11/2009, you wrote:
My own personal belief, is that what will change access will also be the
force which will change the Uk libraries thinking on accessible
books, ----- time.
There is no point denying, %70 of visually impared people are over the age
of 60, ----- and %50 are over the age of 70.
Currently, that comprises people who grew up in the 1940's and 50's.
such people are not naturally interested in science fiction, fantasy
or, ---- by extention computer games.
At a recent doctor who convention however, the oldest people there were my
dad's age, betwene 50 and 60, ---- having grown up in the 1960's, ----
much like my parents, they watched Doctor who, original Startrek, Blake 7,
quatermass, buck rogers etc.
Over the next ten years, that group of people will start to lose their
sight, ---- and will have significantly different reading interests to
those who grew up ten years earlier.
thus, sf books and films will have to be made accessible for them.
Similarly, people who grew up in the 1970's with the Atari 2600 etc;
playing games like Joust, space invaders, original If etc, are currently
40 or so.
the head of retroremakes.com, ---- a die hard gamer if there ever was one,
is himself 40.
In 20 years, when these people begin to lose their sight, they aren't
going to want to give up life long gaming hobbies simply because they can
no longer see.
At that stage, game companies, both mainstream and independent will
suddenly have a group of older customers who will demand games, ---
and, ---- as Bryan said earlier, it won't be quite so devorced from public
consciousness when grandma Jones wants to play her atari but can't because
she can no longer see the screen.
Game companies and independent developers have already produced
adaptations for both deaf and physically impared people, ---- but (even
with deafness), in these cases they are disabilities which affect a larger
proportion of younger people who are themselves playing and buying
computer games.
Were circumstances reversed, I could well imagine those self same people
on gamespot who said a blind person playing a graphical game was
impossible, would say it was similarly impossible for someone who was
paralized from the kneck down to play graphical games, ---- yet head
tracker adapTations for pc games and the wii eXIST, ---- AND WHILE NOT
PERFECT, CERTAINLY ALLOW PEOPLE WITH SUCH DISABILITIES TO PLAY MORE GAMES
THAN PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAREMENT CAN.
I'm thus very much of the opinion that the situation will indeed
change, ----- though convincing game companies (or library services for
that matter), of the truth of this is something of an uphill struggle
currently.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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