I think that right there would turn a lot of blind gamers off. If you have
to get even a little sighted help or look at a separate document to learn
the options in the menus it's not worth it to them. Sad I know, but that's
the way a lot of them are.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake Titicaca!
-----Original Message-----
From: Clement Chou
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:26 AM
To: [email protected] ; Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Proposal for Game Developers
Well, as to how we read menus, most of us do it through trial and error or
get sighted help. I don't know if anyone else imports games from Asia, but I
do... and that's actually helpful at times because for games that have no
localization some people write out the menus in English with all the options
and whatnot which makes life easier. Items and characters are the same way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfredo_The_Music_maker" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Proposal for Game Developers
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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