Hi, I would have to agree with you. You have a group of sixty year olds coming into retirement age and lets consider the facts. Only a small percentage of these will actually lose their sight and only a small percentage of those will actually be interested in buying games. We also have to consider their income potential as well and really in the end, while there might be some income coming in, it is not going to change the overall picture we have here. i have my own thoughts on how our blind community can grow, but it will take more from us than what I think the community will be able or possibly willing to give.
allan The truth will set you free... Jesus of Nazareth 33 AD ----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:36 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Special standards for accessible game developers? > The thing though is as discrimoatory as it may bee, These games are for > actually blind people. > I don't know this fora fact but old people have other issues. > Eg my nanna for instance. > She is dead now but she was almost blind. > she was going def, she had heart trouble and arthritis, so bad she > couldn't play piano. > Then there is my grandpa, he is not blind, not as bad as my nanna but has > a poor understanding of computers in general in fact he still writes his > letters on paper before he emails them. > And my grandma has dementure. > All actual blind people that are just blind is ok. > This could extend to those in wheelchairs that couldn't use their legs. > But thats that. > I fail to see how a person who can't walk, see, use his hands, def, got a > mental problem, either violent or just plain not aware, or anything else > except purely blind or just about could be included. > At the end of the day you have to be realistic about which group you are > going for. > Blind people in general that can use their hands. > So you still get some wheelchair users. > At 04:47 p.m. 21/02/2006, you wrote: >>At 07:01 PM 2/20/2006, you wrote: >>>Hi, >>>So it all boils down to one word... >>>Money. >>>Pro devs want it, we don't have it. >> >>For clarification, by "we" do you mean the consumers? I think there may >>be >>more money out there than you think, and that tendency is only going to >>increase as the boomer generation ages and some chunk of them begin losing >>their sight. >> >> Chris Bartlett >> >> >> >> >>to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
