See, I've been saying the Europeans and especially the Brittish have it so
good! I mean their RNIB DAISY audiobooks don't have any DRM, and now this
about the Free Braille displays? That's just amazing!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Strunk" <ryan.str...@gmail.com>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is back and I'm looking for some
testerswith Braille displays.
Hi Nick,
Thankfully you're not developing a side scroller, arcade game, or FPS
title,
so you don't have to worry about that. Just because very little use has
been
made of Braille displays in the past 8 years doesn't mean you shouldn't
give
it a go. I would venture a guess that there are actually quite a few
Braille
displays out there. Rehab agencies purchase them for a lot of people here
in
the states, and some countries overseas--especially in Europe--will
actually
give free Braille displays to blind people. My wife and I own two between
the two of us, and I have access to four more of them at work.
Audio Tetris has been tried; it didn't work very well. Music audio Tetris
has been tried; it didn't work very well either. The spatial implications
of
a tactile Tetris would be phenomenal to work with. I think you have a
winner
of an idea here.
Good luck to you in your efforts.
All the best,
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 10:38 PM
To: Nick Adamson; Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] N A Soft is back and I'm looking for some testers
with Braille displays.
Hi Nick,
Most of the accessible games out there use speech and/or audio for
feedback. The reason is that braille displays are extremely
expensive,and most blind computer users don't own one. The other
reason is that there has been a huge migration from text based gaming
to real time audio gaming and in a lot of cases the action moves too
fast to review the information via braille. Speech feedback is much
much quicker in an arcade, FPS, or side-scroller so most accessible
game developers don't bother with braille display support.
Cheers!
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