Its that attitude that turns sighted people off listening to anything
the blind community has to say.
Apple took a step forward in making there products accessible with no
added cost to the consumer. True, there products are not cheap, but
your getting the best in parts. If you got the same type of parts for
your PC. You would find out that the cost is not much more than what
Apple is selling for. That is the one reason why PC's did better in
the market, because the usage of lesser grade parts.
Its almost like cars. You can buy the same car with all the bells and
whistles or get that car without for a whole lot cheaper. Apple don't
give you that choice. They say its all or nothing and you get quality.
At 12:24 AM 5/22/2012, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
Yes, precisely. that's one of the things I'm still trying to figure
out myself. It seems like the argument being made by some blind list
members is the opinion they don't need graphics so nobody else does
either. That's just being self-centered and is absolutely irrational thinking.
If that were the case then we could say Richard De Steno's games
don't need sounds either. A deaf-blind gamer only needs to read the
text, he can't hear sounds, so we don't need sounds either. So let's
get rid of all of the sounds and just use text. That would be
totally ridiculous from a blind gamers point of view, because he or
she can hear the sounds even if a deaf-blind gamer can't. Same
principle applies to having some graphics in audio games for sighted players.
Weather we can use them or not isn't the point. The entire point
here is to make said games as playable to as many people as possible
by adding audio for blind gamers, graphics for sighted players, text
for a deaf-blind gamer, etc if possible. In that way everyone has
access to the same app but through a different method.
Cheers!
On 5/21/2012 11:44 PM, Charles Rivard wrote:
I can't figure out why blind people don't think there should be at
least a little feedback, even if it doesn't aid in the playing of
the game, for the sighted gamer. Using that logic, there should be
no sound for any game designed for a deaf gamer. Of course, if
there were sound, maybe a blind player could play the game,
too? But without any sound, the speaker must be broken, right? Same idea.
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