Re: a few complaints about the blind comunity
Hi Steve.
My questions about the eldily were to illustrate the limits of the discussion rather than actually aaasking an opinion.
While I do believe to an extent you are correct about specialist institutions, there is a little more to the issue than just "blind people should never get any considderation at all, end of story!"
Back when dark room was first discovered, most of the game was absolutely fine with vo. you could do all the resource management stuff, go into the forest and build things, recruit your population etc. The map however was completely inaccessible. You could push the arrows and wander about at random, but you had no idea where anything actually was making it impossible to plan any journeys or progress in the game.
Now as it happened the developer was contacted about this and added some very awsome access fixes. Suppose however he had responded with "well sighted people have no problem playing my game, so why should I c hange anything for blind people, sinse blind people don't deserve any special considderation"
This is the central problem. If blindness had no affect on anyone's life and you could do everything exactly the same way sighted people could, then being blind wouldn't be an issue at all.
Obviously there is a big difference between asking for equal access to something and demanding special privilidges, but it is spelling out what this difference is, and how to say what is or is not reasonable behaviour that is the question that needs to be considdered, sinse like most important things in life there just isn't an easy black and white answer here.
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