Well, at least in the states agencies acknolidge that blind people can! use
computers.
In England, it's all nitting circles and bingo!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen Readers and Games
Hi Al,
That's whya document like Michael Feir's excellently written Personal
Power book is a very good help to the blind. If every rehab center or
state agency could hand that out to a totally new blind computer user it
would go a long ways to solving a lot of problems in terms of exposing
them to all the things available to them. Especially, to accessible games
of which I am always eager to find new markets and customers. Instead it
seams each new generation of blind computer users have to find these
things out the hard way by searching for it.
Allan Thompson wrote:
Just a quick note here...
The Veterens administration gives computers to those blind veterens who
can handle it. They only give jaws to the vets, and there is absolutely
no mention of other screen readers. in fact, the VA trainers in the rehab
hospitals for the blind have never once told me anything about all the
great things the visually impaired has accomplished thru programs,
games, email lists and the like.
It would have been nice for those computer teachers to give out lots of
links to the communities that are on the internet, it would have made my
first few years a lot less stressful and difficult.
AS a side note, the only game provided by the VA for the blind was a
chess set, and bingo.
al
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