Hello Thomas,
As a totally blind person since birth, I have had very little or no
experience with mainstream games. I do not know how Wii's wok, or what
kind of gaming my friends who own such consoles are up to. It is only
fair that the blind people have one place, called audio games, and
sighted people have mainstream. Now it is a good thing that we are
trying to combine the two together to make this experience fun for
everyone. Unfortunately, time does not wait for no one, and we have
lives to live.
One specific game I was looking forward to was the "Legend of Zelda,
Skyward Sword". It is one of those games played on the Wii, and
according to the audio games forum, someone said that it is not fully
accessible. I was wondering if there would ever be a time that it could
be made accessible. I have some ideas as to how to make any mainstream
accessible.
We all know that for blind people, we have to use headphones to hear
where sounds are coming. Unfortunately, most television sets have mono
speakers, and a few are starting to have headphone 3.5 MM jacks As
mentioned earlier, I am ignorant to this world of mainstream-gaming. I
do not chow how much support there is in playing games. How do blind
people navigate the menus, select items, play the game, check their
score and other vital signs with the game controller? There are many
types of controllers. It sounds like one is going to have to get used to
a brand-new system that is totally unfamiliar
Usually I consider video-gaming to be very distracting, but if there was
something good that came out of those mainstream games, then I would
want OT see how accessibility could be improved.
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