Hi, Well, I don't think it is so much they are dead set against accessability, but they don't even know where to begin with accessability. Good accessability design and programming isn't something they will be exposed to in college/vocational school so many conclusions are made that accessability has to be some complicated, difficult, and very expensive adaptation to their games. Then, there is the statistics. The statistics show the majority of the blind and low vision people out there are over age 60. A 70 year old grandma isn't likely to run out and buy Grand Theft Audo, Halo, Gear Wars, or any other hot titles in that genre. So what would end up happening is they would be targeting a minority market of a minority market. How many blind and low vision gamers are out there that are between the ages of 10 and 30. I don't know but it is much much smaller than the entire blind community.
Bryan Peterson wrote: > And not to be rude, but mainstream devs, with but a few exeptions, seem dead > set against anything that would change their prooducts even for the better. > "Accessibility for the blind? That won't work in our game. And anyway blind > people can't play because they're blind!" We've heard it alll before I'm > sure. And unless someone somewhere comes up with some staggerring statistics > that prove the value of making their products accessible, most of them > aren't likely to say "why yes, go ahead and make an accessible game for our > console!" If mainstream accessibility is ever going to happen it's going to > take numbers and lots of them, to get the point across. > Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. --- 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]
