You don't have to dumb down a game to make it accessible.

On 6/5/18, Shaun Everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> And to be honest the only way to make a sim accessible is if say you do
> it like eurofly.
>
> Thats a good sim, its accessible, weather its a real game is a different
> matter.
>
> Ofcause the accessibility companies could get involved.
>
> Can you imagine thoughh, get a message.
>
> "this game requires a licence for jaws, and leasy and a licence for
> scripts which will cost 2000000 dollars to buy, please buy the games
> scripts from x website to play the game which will have half its puzzles
> removed so it can comply with the law."
>
> No one will play it.
>
> No one will buy jaws just for a game, and no one will make games
> accessible and they can argue it costs to much to bother.
>
> Suddenly there are a lot of suits and the law will get removed to stop
> gaming companies going out of business.
>
> A law is nice but it doesn't always work for you.
>
> The big companies may or may not be able to handle it or sue for
> exemptions the small guys though.
>
> If the law is to make games accessible, then it probably works both
> ways, the sighted will need to play our games etc.
>
>
>
>
> On 6/5/2018 3:59 PM, QuentinC wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In tehory, of course they should.
>>
>> In practice, they usually don't, whether by ignorance, or because they
>> estimate that the cost to add such features don'tĀ  cover the benefits
>> that they could get in blind people buying the game. Go explain them
>> how many we are in the world...
>>
>> However, I seriously doubt that some types of games are really
>> accessibilisable. It depends on the core game mechanic, and, ammong
>> others, the need for a permanent global view at opposed to local/1st
>> personĀ  view.
>>
>>
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