Hi Dark, I suppose, but from my point of view everything in life happens to be that way. No matter weather I'm listening to television, playing baseball with my son, reading from a menu in a diner, it requires more effort on my part because I'm blind and everyone else isn't. Its a clear case of, "you take the good; you take the bad; you take them both; and there you have the facts of life."
Of course, the other issue here is that although you and I both have visual accessibility issues in ways they are separate disabilities. What I mean by that is older games such as those for the Atari or NES are almost impossible for me to play because there I can't see the graphics at all and the sounds are funky bleep, bleep, bleeps, and boop, boop, boops which mean absolutely nothing to me. You might be able to deal with the primitive graphics but I don't have that advantage, and the primitive sounds don't help me at all. Take a more modern game I can usually hold my own as long as the sounds are good and I don't have to see the 3d graphics to play them. The 3d graphics put you at a disadvantage and I am not sure how good you are at playing modern mainstream games by sound alone. So its interesting that while we have visual disabilities the end result from a gaming user interface is radically different for us. Cheers! On 7/25/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > The problem I see it is that where as in a game with pure sound or with less > > realistic graphics there is no access issue, the closer things get to > reality, the more the access is needed. > > to take the fensing example. yes, you can use light sabers that make noises > > and practice, but the effort will always be more than for a sighted person > when attaining the same level of skill, and when the point of a game is to > test your skill your on to a none starter really when the effort for access > > is so radically different. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
