Another issue I'm throwing out, and, please, I don't want to start a debate on the blind philosophy thing, but you know those types of sighted persons who someone, even if you've got a Masters degree and can do things for yourself, but you know when you need a bit of help or if you just accidentally "meet" a sighted person and they somehow think that because you're blind there's something wrong with you mentally, what effect does that have on the whole games thing? OK, to break it down, let's say you're walking with a pal at Uni and you know the type of person, coming along and asking your pal "how is he?" Starting with assumptions, believing you incapable of answering yourself. Now, some normal game developers might sort of have this same perception when it comes to games. If someone sighted decides to do a "good deed" and makes a game for blind people, how much could it creep into his mind that somehow blind people might have difficulties understanding the game, so he makes it very simplistic, because he somehow thinks that blind persons may also have mental difficulties based on his assumptions? I know I'm not putting my point very clearly here, but I do think you guys sort of understand, it's about the whole thing with sighted persons attitudes to blind persons, and unfortunately some blind persons attitude to blindness as well. We're not just blind people, we also have our different attitudes to stuff, and if you have a blind person with a negative attitude trying to show an audio game to a sighted person, this is a problem. Ari
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