Hi Dark, Well, unfortunately the situation with accessible card and board games isn't that much different here in the United States. I haven't checked a catalog in a while but it is generally the basics like Monopoly Chess, Uno, Scrabble, Bingo, and your all purpose standarddeck of playing cards. You won't find anything like Jeopardy, Mad Gab, Clue, Trouble, or Risk even though there really isn't much to making most of those games accessible.
For example, lets take Trouble here. There are plastic pegs on the board you set the little pieces on so a blind person can count them to find out how many squares to move. The plastic popper in the center of the board isn't accessible but that can easily be fixed by a single braille set of dice. As for the playing pieces a little braille label tape with the letter r for red, letter y for yellow, g for green, and b for blue stuck to the back of the pieces is more than enough to tell them apart. Yet of course there is no such accessible set for sale, and it is up to us to modify a standard set if we want to play that particular game. I don't really know how much say the rehab agencies have in determining what games are made accessible, but the variety of games have been consistent for as long as I can remember. I remember when I first began losing my sight looking in the catalogs and feeling like we were being excluded from games because nobody produced many of the games I played as a kid or young teen. Cheers! On 6/8/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand it, in this country it's the rnib who pretty much rule > everything with an iron fist. > > They commission someone to make the accessible versions of the games, get > the copywrites, and then distribute them themselves, and sinse the > government agencies will always put newly blind people or families with > blind children in touch with the rnib, that really is how they will sell > stuff. > > In fairness I can't complain about the prices. My tactile backgammon board > was 18 pounds, that's around 25 dollars, however this does mean that the > only games that get made accessible are the games which the Rnib themselves > > aproves of for blind people, which means only games really aimed at eldily > people, or very occasionally, young children. > > heck, even well known games like life or cludo (what is called clue in the > states), dont' have an accessible form. > > As I said, all the rnib does are packs of braille uno and standard cards, > tactile dominoes, backgammon, chess, snakes and ladders, monopoly, the peg > five in a row game, and ludo. > > Beware the Grue! > > dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
