Hi, Well, it make sense that accessible games be aimed at a specific target market. As I have said before reaching universal accessibility is really difficult to do unless it uses very simple user interfaces such as text which is good for blind, deaf, sighted, etc but is still not right for everyone. There are disorders like Dyslexia that effect a person's ability to read and write and therefore there would have to be speech combined with a menu to help overcome that person's disability. The standard parser system used by Tads, Inform, Adrift, and other such games wouldn't work for a person with Dyslexia.
Another case I can think of is people with motor impairments. Some can be satisfied with simple one switch games, but I have known people who could not even do that. I knew a girl in college who was paralyzed from the waste down. She ran her computer by voice and a head tracking unit. She was also partially blind so used Jaws too. The point being in order to make a game that would be totally accessible to her special needs a developer like myself would have to add speech recognition support, probably Sapi output, and the game would probably have to be turn based not real time so she could play it. Right there that excludes a huge number of types of games just by the nature of her disability. I don't see someone in that condition playing Raceway or Rail Racer, because she doesn't have the fine motor skills to use a racing wheel, mouse, or joystick let alone a keyboard, nor can she dictate fast turns etc verbally to the game. About all she will ever be able to play are card and board games, or games with a similar turn based style of play. Cheers! On 11/6/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can see where you are coming from. > Accessable games seem to be routed at one dissability or another. > Now ofcause I am blind so I concentrate on that but it does get me > thinking what others are out there. > I do aggree with the universal access thing myself. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
