I would like to see such advertisements made available to blind people in
formats other than electronic for a change. Although they may be few, there
are people who prefer to do their own reading. There also may be people who
don't use a computer, but would if something gets their interest. What made
the computer gain popularity with businesses was a killer application--the
Spreadsheet. Once their value was realized, we've never looked back.
Gaming could be the killer application for the blind, and you've got to find
out about the gaming field from somewhere. Maybe through a friend or
something, but nothing beats reading about it unaided in any way, browsing a
catalog or advertisement pamphlet at your own pace and leisure. Braille is
the way to go. No machine is necessary. Read it yourself, just like anyone
else at conventions does.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] braille/large print/other media for audio games (was
info games game engines)
Hi Dark,
Perhaps, but I think we are running into a communication error since I
didn't make my thoughts fully clear in my last post.
To begin with a lot of these resellers now offer their catalogs
electronically. Either as a download on their website, sometimes
e-mailed directly to the customer, or shipped to them on CD. As a
result if Auddyssey or Audiogames.net wanted to put an informational
advertisement in one of their catalogs they could probably do so
without incurring any cost to either the reseller or to themselves
since the catalog is already electronic for the most part. Therefore
all this talk of embossing pamphlets and so forth could be rendered
mute as there might be a less expensive way to get the word out to
customers without involving huge startup costs or involving
organizations.
So that should answer two of your questions.
A reseller can or should be able to send out a free pamplet because it
is electronic and would be of no cost to them. Merely a few bites of
info inside their monthly catalog. Thus there also would be no need to
sell it since there is no cost involved for anyone to get the word
out.
Cheers!
On 6/19/15, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tomm.
I do believe the cost to get a number of pamflets printed wouldn't be
quite
so insane, sinse after all in the Uk lots of organizations from theatres
to
restaurant chains have stuff brailled, heck my bank can deliver a braille
bank statement each month if I wish and I doubt they'd be paying too
much.
It's likely something that needs looking into formally.
Distributing through resellers is a good idea, however my concern is why
should a company send out a free pamflet? and if the pamflet was not free
why would people buy it?
I also have noticed myself that a lot of charitable blindness
organizations
in the Uk at least do have quite a bit of promotional material kicking
around both for other services and for commercial products, so I don't
think
it'd be asking too much for them to have a general informational leaflet
available as well, plus of course it's far easier to send free leaflets
to
say schools for the blind or meeting groups (sinse hay we might not like
them but there are potentially people interested in games there), than to
get them to buy an informational resource.
Then again there is a way to find out, I wonder how many people have
bought
that actual book on Ios accessible games which phil mentioned? A book is
far
more information than I was thinkng, but hay if people are interested in
buying it then maybe a paid leaflet on audiogames in general wouldn't be
such a bad thing.
All the best,
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is
vast
and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than
even
the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
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