Could you come into a room, turn the unit on, choose a game without hunting
for it by trial and error, roll the first ball at the desired spot by
knowing your target instead of randomly throwing it, know what pins remain
(if any), use skill rather than guesswork to aim at them, and know your
score after the first frame is over? Could you tell me your final score
after the tenth frame had ended, all with no sighted help? If you can play
the bowling game with no sighted help at all, knowing everything you need to
in order to play the game completely through, then I would say that it is
accessible, and be interested. If you cannot, then the game is not
accessible. Console and game operation by guesswork does not, in any way,
equate to doing so using accurate and useable feedback. If you don't get
the feedback needed to operate and play the games, it's not accessible. In
a sense, it would be like operating your computer without a screen reader if
you are totally blind. You could conceivably do it by guessing at your
results as you type. You could go through the correct motions such as
typing what you need to, but did it work? Without the necessary feedback,
you don't know.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian McNamara" <ianmcnamar...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] weii bowling cannot be played independently by
theblind - Re: Accessable games for the playstation three.
Exactly On our whiee when we had it I had the highest score on the bowling
on our console and no one could break it including sighted people.
Ian McNamara
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