What was the reference to Southwest? Don't know any lawsuit involving them.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:05 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: sony sued by visually impaired gamer This is going to be a hard one. They may have a claim under ADA Restoration Act signed by President Bush in August 2008 which does address electronic communication but this may be a place where no accommodation is possible. I wouldn't sue the Guggenheim Museum for not having "blind accessible" versions of Edward Hopper (along with Andy, my favorite 20th century American painter) works beyond a text description. In the Hopper case, there would be no way to provide the transcendental effects of the stark loneliness depicted in his incredibly powerful work; at the same time, while I have played and enjoyed David Greenwood's 3D audio games on Windows, they are specifically designed not to need a visual interface of any kind. I'm fairly sure that Sony didn't even try to create a non-visual interface but the building blocks to do so aren't really too available and a lot of trial and error needs to go in to make them work effectively. Nintendo did sponsor some guys to make games with non-visual interfaces for one of its devices. I don't know what happened to them as I stopped keeping up with the gaming world a couple of years back do to too many other obligations and a desire to spend more time fishing and reading things entirely unrelated to technology used by people with vision impairment. Sorry for dropping the ball on this one. Sometimes, lawsuits by private citizens scare ne. If NFB, ACB, AFB, Lighthouse, etc. choose to sue, they will do so with very well researched legal advice on their side. If a lawsuit comes out wrong (Southwest Airlines for instance) it could cause a precedent that could ruin things for more well considered legal actions in the future. Doing a lawsuit right requires the cash to pay lots of big ticket legal bills which can only really be afforded by the big advocacy organizations and rarely by individuals not named Gates, Jobs, etc. Happy Hacking, cdh PS: Only 1 cup so far... On Nov 8, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > http://www.gamespot.com/news/6239339.html > > Hmmm...kinda of a double edged sword, but in the end, it is right to > do so if there were no other options. > > This needs following > > best > > Yuma > Yuma Decaux > > Light has no value without darkness > Skype: shainobi1 > twitter: www.twitter.com/triple7 > Tel: +85513623378 > Yuma Antoine Decaux > jamy...@gmail.com > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
