I can only judge based on what I've read, as do most people. In case
you haven't seen my other messages, I provided suggestions on how he
might improve the content and overall tone of his messages. As a rehab
counselor with experience in the blindness field, I feel pretty
confident in stating that I know a thing or two about affective self
advocacy strategies. It's my personal and professional goal to help
empower others to improve their skills by imparting those strategies. If
I can be of further assistance in any way, you, Michael, or any list
member can feel free to please contact me off list. This thread has
strayed too far off topic as it is. In this internet based world, blind
and sighted people alike are judged based on how they present themselves
in writing, and how they depict their interactions with other people.
This is a harsh reality that we must all face.
Allison
16/2011 9:07 PM, Joseph Weaver wrote:
If you want to help him show him what to do, and you can't judge competency
because you don't know hi like I do.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Allison Mervis<[email protected]> wrote:
For your information, I do not feel that I am better than any other person on
this list. However, I have significant experience as a competent blind adult
and as an advocate for other blind people. I am simply trying to help Michael
improve his skills both as a self advocate, and most especially, as an advocate
for the blind community at large. Sighted developers look at Michael's
communications and most likely judge blind people as a whole based on how he
presents us and himself. I refuse to be painted with such a broad brush, and
will not remain silent on this issue. Have a wonderful evening.
Allison
On 12/16/2011 8:54 PM, Joseph Weaver wrote:
Nice to meet you mr. Or mrs.
Perfect. We're all on the Same side lets quit bashing each other I get the
feeling from some of the people on this list that they think their better than
everyone else
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 16, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Allison Mervis<[email protected]> wrote:
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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