Here's the thing Michael. It's the little things that we do when we
write to other people which set the tone of our messages. I think you
know that your writing could stand to improve pretty significantly. You
don't use proper punctuation and grammar, you don't structure your
sentences very well, and your messages always sound as though you've
written them in a terrible hurry. This combination of factors would make
anyone sound demanding and rude. If you'd take an extra five minutes to
run spell checker and proofread your messages, that would go a long way
towards changing the overall tone. You also need to be a lot more
specific when you're communicating with developers. Judging by your
communications to the list, you've basically kept saying to poor Mario,
"This isn't accessible, fix it," over and over again. Any time one of us
has suggested a particular game feature which needs to be improved, you
respond almost as though you haven't played the game yourself. Sometimes
I think you simply loaded the intro screen of the game, saw that the
buttons weren't initially labeled, and shot off an email to the
developer with no clear idea of the specific changes that needed to be
made. This placed a terribly heavy burden on Mario. I suspect that all
of the things he learned about implementing the level of accessibility
which currently exists within the game was a result of his own research
and hard work. He should be commended for that. These are just a few
more things to keep in mind as you hopefully work to improve your
advocacy skills.
Allison
On 12/16/2011 7:11 PM, michael barnes wrote:
Well I know someone of you think I was being too demanding and rude
but I was just trying to see if I could be a part of the team to
improve the game.
I have shown my email to other people and they agree with me that all
I was trying to do is help.
When I have done what all of you are talking about developers don't
want to make their games accessible.
I was only doing this because as a blind gamer and helping to make a
IOS app I could have gave some good pointers.
I know that folks on here ain't trying to call me rude when some of
y'all have nasty atitudes with some people in the past.
If you thought I was being a pest I wasn't.
I only sent him one email after I join the forum which was this morning.
I am done talking about this subject.
So please lets quit talking about it.
The next time I speek to a developer about IOS I know what I need to do.
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