Hi Richard, That's really some good points. What I'd really like, is a clearer definition of 'accessibility,' which I know is being done. I mean, must the game then be accessible to other disabilities, like deaf players, or players with other dissabilities? About games on TV etc, their are many games that sighted people play using their TV's. It's interesting that a blind person could actually sue if they can't play these games, but what I wonder is whether their would actually be a blind person who'd actually sue just because he/she can't play a game. It also brings up a very interesting question about how sighted people would view that case! I know what I'm going to say is controversial, but I think some sighted people might get the feeling that, because a game has to be made accessible for the blind, they'd somehow think that their standard of game play would be lowered, i.e, blind people can't play difficult or challenging games, or that some of the challenge of the game has been taken away because it had to be modified for blind people. You guys might already be starting to virtually throw things at me, but it's true, sighted people sometimes have strangest perceptions and ideas about blind people, example, I am studying at a university. So far, I've had this problem only twice, but some students, I don't know why they do this, but they somehow think that, even though I got to Uni, and I'm studying, I'm somehow incapable of even answering questions! Really! I'm walking with a friend, and this student comes up and starts asking my friend, 'What's he studying?' or even worse, 'How is he today?'The enlightened sighted people laugh along with me, but this whole debate about accessible gaming and accessible games might come right round again to the question about how do sighted people view us? Ari
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