You know, there are a few blind people who have never heard of accessible games. They just play mainstream games, and I think that if the developers were to make there games accessible, then a lot more blind people would jump at the chance to play them, me being one of them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal
> We have a better chance of persuading mainstream devs of the value of > accessibility than we do of forcing i., But it's not happening without > presenting them some serious statistics. We have to PERSUADE, not force > here, or as Liam said we'll give the blind community a bad name. Besides, > we > need to convince them that they wouldn't be making a huge financial > blunder. > That was one of the things the folks at Audio Games wanted us to do when > Soundvoyager was released, to play it and give Nintendo our hints and > experiences. I myself did and have to admit that they seemed fairly open > to > the idea of "accessibility to the blind. So if we can put together enough > statistics and marshall a convincing argument, we might just sway a dev or > two, and if enough devs take to the cause then more might be swayed as > well. > But trying to force the issue isn't going to get us anything but a bad > reputation, and the reputation of the blind in some quarters probably > could > be better as it is. > Bryan and Jennie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "aaron danvers-jukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:15 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal > > >>i have to agree with liam and che on this one. make suggestions, tell >> themwhy you want it accessible, but do not, and i repeat, do *not*, use >> force. >> regards, >> aaron >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
