Hi Dark, I hadn't quite looked at it that way, but you are right on the money. As blind techno users we often declare something accessible if we are able to use it weather or not it is really accessible or not. If someone buys an mp3 player and memorize all the menus, buttons, etc with some sighted help it is called accessible when that really isn't the case. We tend to do that with games and other products as well. I really enjoyed your thesis of gaging aaccessibility by comparing the amount of difficulty a blind person has to use a product compared to an average sighted person using the same product. If a game uses spoken output as well as prints text to the screen then accessibility in that area is likely to be very high since both are getting the same output. If I have to have someone read that text or memorize that text then it is low quality accessibility.
Dark wrote: > I absolutely agree, and this is probably a good way of separating something > like smugglers 3 from the various console games mentioned, even if they are > playable with trouble. > > by the same logic, all food packits, tins signs and most products bought in > shops are totally accessible, because it's possible to get someone to read > the packaging, ---- which is obviously not the case. > > to quote a bit of my Phd, "when comparing the performance of disabled and > non-disabled people at certain goals, and deciding whether those goals are > negatively effected by the disability, it is first necessary to considder > the amount of effort in optimum conditions which the average statistically > normal (abled boddied), individual would require to perform that task, and > compare this to the independent efforts of an individual with disabilities" > > Beware the philosopher! > > Dark. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
