Hi Michael and all. While one does occasionally require sighted assistance when dealing with a mainstream console, in my case mainly my ps3, I find that most times I require little or no sighted assistance and can generally time things that I do need help with for when it is available. You will need sighted help at least with something like the ps3 for initial setup including setting up a psn account for instance and if you need to interact with the online portions of the system e.g. if you wish to buy games or other downloadable content because these things are inaccessible and are almost certainly going to remain so. Depending on what games you like to play you may or may not require sighted assistance to learn and/or play those. Most of the ones I have I require no sighted assistance whatsoever to either start or play the games. It is true that some additional effort is required on your part, you need to go online to gamefaqs and other places and read and understand movelists and other things that people have written up. You will need to seek out other blind or visually impaired players who are willing to help you with things like memorizing the menus as these don't tend to be written down on places like gamefaqs because it's generally assumed there that the players are sighted.
My point to all this is, while yes it's nice to have things that are made accessible for us and it would be great if everything was that way, it's not and it never is going to be, we are a very insignificant minority living in the sighted world after all, so it behooves you to learn as much as you can and to take advantage of as much of the mainstream technology that we can use and do your best to work around what we can't. Hope this helps, I just hate to see someone not getting into mainstream gaming because of a misconception that they are going to need huge amounts of sighted help all the time. Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of michael barnes Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 5:49 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Could someone please help? Well the thing is I would like to start a app with out having a pare of eyes to figure out the layout. Or guest what is what. A sighted or low vision person don't have to so it need to be the same for totally blind people. That is why I havn't got the Wii or any other game system. I don't have any eyes around to help. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
