Hi Dark, Very interesting research there. I hadn't thought about it much, but you are right. When it comes to passing laws protecting those with disabilities, or making products meant to aid those with same disability it would help to have a definition in place I.E. a standard to go by that isn't just another bare minimum approach to the problem. Just in our own disability, visual impairment, we have everything from simple color blindness to total blindness. A person who is color blind simply can not distinguish certain colors such as the difference between green and brown or say blue and purple. Someone who is totally blind can't see anything at all. Obviously being totally blind is more serious, but is color blindness a disability? Well, certainly color blindness would be a disability, and could be problematic in certain cases. It might not effect that persons ability to work, drive, or watch television, but it could effect his/her ability to view certain web pages where they use color schemes that don't take in acccount some of the commonly confused colors. In terms of vidio games, for example, there are usually health or energy bars that change color when the player's health status increases or decreases. Someone has a problem seeing green and red wouldn't be able to tell if the player's health is full or critical based on that color scheme. So even though color blindness may be a miner disability it still effects his/her life in some way. I think when it comes to disability the hardest to prove and define here are mental disabilities. All of us have our own level of intelligence which makes us unique. For example, when it comes to spelling my wife can practically spell anything off the top of her head. However, give her a basic math equation like solving the area of a triangle, and you can forget it. Is that considered a disability? So I think the definition of disability needs to be solved. We can never make laws or create products aimed at a certain disability if we don't even define what disability is. What does it mean to be disabled.
Smile. On 6/9/10, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Tom. > > this is disturbingly true, in fact I myself don't own an accessible mobile > phone for precisely the same reason, ---- well my phone is perfectly > accessible in that I can pick up and phone with it, but not in any other > way. > > It is however interesting to view this problem in light of my own research. > > while the atitude of the corperations does indeed have a major effect, > having viewed the academic literature and various documents used in the > debate on making disability related laws, I have to say it's not adequate > to discussing the problem. > > the vast majority produced recently tends to what to ignore the fact > disability causes any access issues at all, and say it's all "society's" > fault, blaming everything to do with access about the basic setup of > society. > > in fact people's refusal to acknolidge the extra effort and cost of living > with a disability is and want to catagorize it all as social is rather > irritating. > > this is one of the major forces behind my own phd, an attempt to defign > disability on a far more basic level, and through that deffiniation > establish questions like what it is for a thing to be accessible, ---- eg, > one major factor will be cost. > > Beware the grue! > > 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].
