Hi Ryan,
Yes, I am certainly blind. However, I wasn't blind my entire life so perhaps that makes the difference. I know how sighted people think, and I know how blind people think. So I am in a position to understand both sides of the argument. However, the problem is that a sighted person knows no more about what it is like to be blind than a blind person knows what its like to see so often those people argue from a position of ignorance of the other party's perspective.
In a situation like this one I get frustrated with the blind who say adding icons, graphics, etc to a game is unnecessary. Of course its unnecessary for a blind player, but since they don't understand how much a sighted person depends on sight they blithely make statements like they can learn to play without graphics. While that may be technically true the fact of the matter is most sighted people will be disinterested in the game if there aren't any graphics, and even if they do go as far to play a game by sound they would still want something to look at besides a black screen. The sooner blind people recognize this the sooner we'll be able to at least open up dialog between blind game developers and sighted game developers on how we can bridge the needs of blind and sighted users at the same time. However, instead of attempting to meet the needs of both blind and sighted gamers some blind people want to argue the point and force a sighted person to play our games as we do, and I'm afraid to say that will never happen unless we are willing to meet them half way.
Cheers! On 5/21/2012 7:22 AM, Ryan Strunk wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here. Aren't you blind, too, Tom? Thanks, Ryan
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