Hi Josh, Sigh... Blindness has nothing to do with it. The simple truth is there are legal laws, rules, that apply to everyone blind, deaf, black, white, etc regardless of race, gender, or handicap. The US copyright laws are just one of those things. Yes, at times the copyright laws are unfair, unjust, but then again often times laws are written with little thought put to the accessibility of the matter, and it has to be amended to include group x fairly into the law. For example, before Public Law 9-22 it was a copyright violation to reprint articles, books, news papers, etc in braille or record them on record. Once congress realised how unfairly the copyright laws were treating blind Americans they passed Public Law 9-22 which states that any printed material be it articles, books, magazines, can be reprinted in braille, recorded on audio, etc provided it is in a specialised format for people with disabilities. That amended the copyright act so that aaccessible printed materials could always be redistributed fairly in some form of accessible format. When it comes to games like Star Wars being made accessible there is no such exception in the copyright laws as yet. Accessibility is a slow and up hill battle that takes time and money to change. I have neither the time or the money to battle it out in court and have my case heard before the Supreme Court or Congress. Especially, since there are so many other more pressing accessibility issues out there. For example, why do I have to pay extra for a talking accessible Microwave? Why can't I just go to any appliance store, and buy a similar product with speech and other accessibility built in? Well, because there is no law that companies have to think about making microwaves, DVD recorders, televisions, etc accessible to the blind. To me we need to worry more about getting every day products accessible, really accessible, before we can think of entertainment products like games accessible.
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