You can't force accessibility, for the reasons mentioned by Che and because "accessible" is a subjective term. What is accessible to you may not be accessible others. I make games for blind and partially sighted people but they won't work with a Braille display so people who are Deaf-Blind can't play them.
Game companies respond to the market but gathering a few dozen signatures isn't going to change anything. Everyone here knows that the market is tiny and few developers are managing to sell more than a couple of hundred copies a year. Yet, there are 2 million people registered blind in the UK, I don't know how many more in the US, and I've just read that India has almost half a million blind children. The potential market is massive but until game developers can penetrate this market, it's going to go unnoticed. As a final thought, APH sell about 20 million dollars' worth of gadgets and assistive products a year and they obviously reach a lot of people. I found only one computer game in their catalogue, which was an antiquated word game. If you could get them, or other distributors, to publicise your games you would increase market awareness. Once you have a large enough market you'll find more developers wanting to get involved. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] deal or no deal? > Hi, my friend and I are attempting through legal remendies to force > companies to make there computer games accessible to people with visual > impairments or any other handicap the more people we have the better our > chances! Feel free to contact me or my friend penny my email is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Penny's email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated. _______________________________________________ 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.
