Hi Tom.
this is actually good to knowk, sinse it means the idea I'm writing about in
my thesis makes sense.
My concern with the confusion over accessibilityk, is that many institutions
or individuals aimed! at disabled people do not considder this.
To use an example from my thesis, I for instance was extremely angry when my
bank catagorically refused to E-mail me statements, or discuss my bank
account over the phone. They stated that they provided braille bank
statements which was an "accessible" alternative, ignoring the fact that
skim reading is utterly impossible in braille, and I am not going to sit
down for an hour and read something it would take a sighted person just
minutes to glance through.
This was particularly irritating because previously they'd just worked over
the phone, however their new security system meant that I! had to answer
questions about the current status of my account that could only be gotten
from a quarterly bank statement.
this was actually amazingly commical, me phoning my bank to ask them what
the balance was on my creddit card or my current account and being asked to
verify my identity with the very information i! was asking them!
I've found a solution, cooperating with my local branch which is luckily
five minutes walk down the road and I pass every day, however this is a case
where an "accessible" option had been provided by the bank, but one which
was not, according to the effort it required actually accessible in the more
literal sense.
This is the tack I'm afraid that mainstream companies will take if we start
talking about how "accessible" mainstream games are, ---- afterall as I said
in my previous post, it's not as if I haven't heard that arguement before,
and if a big coorporation could improve their image by pretending to be
concerned about disabled access while effectively doing bugger all, not to
mention casting people like the game accessibility sig who campaign for true
access in a very bad light, they certainly would.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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