Part of being a strong advocate is not flying off the handle when
something doesn't happen as quickly as you'd like it to. Mario mentioned
that he had an idea of what to do in order to fix the accessibility
issues which still existed in Silversword. Even though you knew this
Michael, you still continued to email him far more often than was
warranted. Now Mario may decide not to implement further accessibility
in Silversword, and I wouldn't entirely blame him. As blind computer
users, virtually every interaction we have with a sighted developer is
an opportunity to educate them about our intelligence, competence, and
ability to advocate for ourselves appropriately. When we don't do this,
we leave the sighted developer with a negative view that he or she could
ascribe to all blind people with whom they interact in the future. This
is why we must always conduct ourselves with the utmost professionalism
and courtesy when asking a developer to consider accessibility. I
sincerely hope that you have learned a valuable lesson from this
experience. Unfortunately, your mistake may have cost the blind gaming
community the ability to fully enjoy a really interesting sounding game.
Please consider this the next time you wish to advocate for the
community at large. If you want to become a successful advocate, you
will need to change your tactics significantly.
Allison
On 12/16/2011 6:19 AM, Bryan Peterson wrote:
Not to be rude or anything Michael but you do sometimes have a
tendency to come off as rude. That's why I didn't respond to his last
post on the forum topic because I didn't want to risk eliciting just
that sort of response.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
----- Original Message ----- From: "michael barnes" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 3:34 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Silversword is not the game for the blind.
Hey, All.
I wrote Mario a email sharing him some suggestions about the game.
And he wrote a bad response to me.
So I will not support his bad atitude about accessibility for blind and
low vision people.
Here is the message he sent me.
Hi Michael,
at first it was nice. Then it was constructive. Now it is spam.
Stop spamming me, will you?
Treat this message as a nice way to ask for:
- stop emailing me with accessibility issues that contain unwanted
advertisments
- stop using the game forum for these things
You can advertise your accessibility forum wherever you want, but not
on cost of my work.
Herzliche Grüße
Kind regards
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