Funny you should mention thomas the tank engine board games Tom, sinse one
of my earlier childhood memories when I was learning braille was my mum
labeling a Thomas board game for me, ---- basically a roll the dice to reach
the end type of game with a few special squares.
I must have been about 3 or 4 at the time, and played the game with my mum
and sometimes friends until it fell to bits :D.
Not that there shold! have been an accessible version, much as I had a bit
of a craze on Thomas and trains when I was little (I own the hole set of
original, metal 1980's trains, which are probably now worth quite a lot of
money), though perhaps a service helping parents braille those sorts of
games for blind children would be a good thing. luckily my mum could do it
herself, but obviously not everyone has a mother who also reads braille
(Indeed my mum pretty much taught me braille for the first year of school
because the councel couldn't find a teacher).
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers
Hi Jim,
That would be a good question for the rehab centers that sell the
games. Perhaps contacting someone like the Cleveland Sight Center
since they have a lot of those games in their Ideas Shop. I never
really thought about that question much until this subject came up,
and now I'd really like to know if it is the manufacturer or the rehab
centers themselves that decides which games are to be made accessible.
Certainly some games like Monopoly are a given. It seems to be a game
that everyone plays, just about every family owns, and is very
popular. Something like the Thomas and Friends board game is designed
for small kids, and wouldn't be too popular with adults.Therefore it
might make sense why that game wouldn't be made accessible because
the majority of people with vision related issues are over 60 where
Thomas and Friends is for kids ages 3 to 6.
Cheers!
On 6/8/12, Jim Kitchen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Charles and all,
I am curious, who decides what games to make accessible. I mean is it
the
original manufactures of the games, or do some of the blind organizations
get together and commission for the games to be made accessible or what?
And then who does set the price of them?
BFN
Jim
If Walmart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?
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