Hi Tom.
That's a good idea, though I stil think the welcome message needs to be done
as well, just because there will be members that subscribe to the list
without visiting that page, just having the subscription addresse passed
onto them by friends.
Hopefully betwene some sort of intro webpage and a welcome message people
can be given more of a start on where to look for games.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Suggestion about the list
Hi Dark,
Right. That is all perfectly understandable and you are absolutely
correct about the difference between how a sighted and a blind user
gathers information in an e-mail or on a website. Which does present a
problem of where to put the information so that it is likely to get
noticed since as you say all the convensional places like in the
footer of an e-mail post doesn't work because most blind users with a
screen reader are likely to skip it.
Sure I am willing to edit the default welcome message info, but I do
not think that in of itself is enough. I think that this information
should go somewhere on our home page as Audyssey is one of the main
resources for accessible gaming, but the website itself doesn't hold
much information on the topic. Instead, it has been used as a simple
page to direct people to the list which I think should change. While
we don't need to necessarily become another Audiogames.net we should
at least mention the site and have quick links to important content
for first time new comers. Things like the 7128 Top 25 websites is a
great resource for new accessible gamers and we should mirror that
list on Audyssey somewhere. Having this information right on our site
might cut down on the "where do I go to get x" type questions because
it will be in a logical place to look.
Cheers!
On 12/28/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi tom.
while I do certainly agree that there are plenty of people who just don't
take the time to look things up, ---- indeed I get a trifle exasperated
sometimes when someone will ask a question about a game which is answered
in
it's documentation, or asks about something which could be found on
audigoames.net or pcsgames I do think there is another point at least
where
things like footer information are concerned.
Your phrase "in plane sight" actually said it very correctly.
The point of having footers, banner adds on web pages, info in margins
etc
is that people who are visually skim reading the page will absorb some of
the information as they read the main text.
this is afterall the poin behind most advertizing, not that people
actually
pay attention to it, just that it is there on one side so that people
will
have it in mind when shopping.
that however is not true for someone using a screen reader, sinse
obviously
there you go as quickly as possible to the information you want, indeed I
rarely if ever know what adds on webpages or constant footer info on
messages says, sinse I always endeaver to skip past it or not bother
reading
it.
While hell for navigation (especially on pages that are ful of adds),
this
is good for avoiding seeing them generally.
this does mean though that information needs to be in a place that people
will actually pay attention to looking, such as a welcome message or a
page
which they will at least hopefully take the time to read.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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