Hi The best thing is to get other blind/vi players involved and write to the webmaster of the site. Until they know we're out there and want to play they might not consider accesibility issues. I was playing an online game called starbase challenge. The webmaster and I swapped some emails and after ironing out a few things he had no trouble making the necessary changes to the game. I'm happy to say also he was more then willing to enable me to play the game on an equal level with sighted players.
Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Frahm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gamers discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:11 PM Subject: [Audyssey] web accessability issues Hi. I have played neopets and most of it is inaccessable. It seems there isn't a ton of games on the net which are accessable to blind and sighted players alike. I truly wish there were more. I wish there was a website where one can raise play or battle with pets. When I was sighted I had a petz 3 game which helped me take care of a cat or dog and I could breed them and play with them. I am fairly sure that isn't adaptable but some of these online sites surely could be. HAving an accessable site like neopets might get a large following. Apparently it's popular with people of all ages from all over the world. So why is there no room for the visually impaired in the community? If I knew the coding I'd make a site to adress this gap in playability. Seems a lot of websites are thusly. Myspace, an online community website, is similarily inaccessible. Even agter e-mailing them with suggestions I never heard anything back. We as a community should take action, like with the monopoly.com site, and demand equal access. This affects all of us and we should not stand by and take it. Sorry, that's the advocate in me *grins* but I had to write about this for the issue is important to me. Thanks. Chrissie _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
