Unofrtunately Tom, with the rnib being so overbearing in this country, and
also having far more control, that atitude gets multiplied a hundred fold.
As I've also said with regards to games, I wonder what is going to happen
when the generation who grew up in the 60's and 70's, the people currently
in their 40's and early 50's start losing their vision, sinse they won't! be
happy with knitting magazines, bingo and access only to crime or romance
novels.
Plus of course, sterriotyping older people is always a bad thing anyway. My
next door neighbor is in her 80's, but uses a computer regularly to edit and
destribute home made greetings cards, either printed out or through mail,
and I certainly know a couple of players of core exiles who are over 60
(probably being a none pvp game, it attracts that style of player).
But I'm scheptical of the rnib changing their opinions, sinse they don't
actually listen to anyone who's not telling them what they want to here in
the first place, ---- heck I even offered to work on their book selection
committee at one point, selecting books to be made available on the basis
that I probably knew more about sf and fantasy, and about what series they'd
already recorded than they do, ---- but I was told that they didn't want
members making such decisions and that was why they had reader requests
(quite a joke because I'd been submitting reader requests from the age of
7).
these days my philosophy is to avoid the Rnib as much as humanly possible,
and do my own thing as regards books, services or anything else.
Beware the grue!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Redistributing RPG Source Books
Hi Dark,
Well, I think we get some of that here, but just not as bad. While it
is legal to redistribute copies of the RPG source books and campaign
guides in an accessible format I think the reason the major agencies
like APH, Learning Alley, and NLS don't is simply this belief that
blind people wouldn't be interested in them. That, of course, isn't
true and Dungeons and Dragons and similar spin off games are extremely
popular with both blind and sighted players. For one reason it doesn't
require any vision to play, and all we really need is some braille
dice and a sheet of braille paper. The high tech player might use a
laptop with the GMA Dice program and Windows notepad. Either way we
certainly can play roll playing games, but there is an out dated idea
that blind people wouldn't be interested in that type of thing.
Probably because the people who make those kind of decisions are older
and aren't interested in it themselves so assume people their age
wouldn't like it.
Cheers!
On 6/14/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tom.
It's a pain, especially sinse in this country there is no government
impetus
or funding for access, so it's left to the Rnib who control with an iron
fist and wouldn't ever! make accessible versions of rp books because (as
they told me), "most blind people wouldn't like that"
Though officially sinse 2005 an agency could make an accessible copy in
this
country without publishers' permission, none has actually done so, so
accessible copies are left up to the good will of publishing agencies who
don't generally have much.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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