[Electronics-talk] Video Games

Sun Apr 22 13:38:24 UTC 2012

You can do that, but it won't be as satisfying as it is for those 
without sensory limits.  That's the reason why Section 508 excludes 
simulators from accessibility requirements because right now the bar is 
just too high for even contractors employed by the Federal Government 
with all of their combined resources to even come near the experience 
people without sensory limitations get and are intended to have playing 
those games.  Also as a result of the exclusion, none of the Asian or 
American manufacturers of hardware or software have been or are putting 
any special efforts towards opening up accessibility for those of us 
with sensory limitations.  Unless there was some work with those systems 
I don't know about.

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Jolynn Page wrote:

> On 4/21/12, Jolynn Page <linnie1516 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will try the link and see what games I can find.  I was trying to
> > figure out if there are any video games a blind person can play
> > whether on a playstation, nintendo wii, 3ds or any of those systems.
> > I went online and saw something where a blind woman was playing a game
> > on the nintendo 64 but wasnt sure if there are any other games out
> > there.  I was just trying to find something that I can play with my
> > family or on my own.  Thanks for any help you can give me
> > Linnie
> >
> > On 4/21/12, Jolynn Page <linnie1516 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I do have an iPad 2 I haven't been very lucky in finding games that
> >> are accessible with voice over.
> >>
> >> On 4/21/12, Linda Bloodsaw <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Do you have an iPad? I play games on my iPad.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:59 PM, "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi. Is this a video game though? does it use graphics and sounds? Or is
> >>>> it
> >>>> like a text adventure.
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> bb
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
> >>>> <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> >>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> >>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >>>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Video Games
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> nethack was the original top down view video game and can be played on
> >>>>> text-based systems with the text interface like Linux and dos at least
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> 386 computer for dos and is a free download from nethack.org.  Use the
> >>>>> enter link when you get there if you decide to download that one.
> >>>>> There
> >>>>> are people that spend their entire lives and never win nethack.  Its
> >>>>> support list is rec.games.roguelike.nethack on usenet.  If you play
> >>>>> with
> >>>>> accessibility defaults it uses ascii for screen display and that makes
> >>>>> it possible.  A mac in terminal mode can do this too.  The game maps
> >>>>> are
> >>>>> randomized so never the same between games.  If you use the (?)
> >>>>> character inside the game you get to all of the game's help.  Use of
> >>>>> (/)
> >>>>> will allow you to move the cursor to a character and when you hit
> >>>>> enter
> >>>>> have the character under the cursor described.  Best I ever did was
> >>>>> experience level 12 out of 30 and I usually get killed off on
> >>>>> experience
> >>>>> level 7 these days.  Cursor movement is done with arrow keys or
> >>>>> letters
> >>>>> on keyboard  hjkl left down up right and variants.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Jolynn Page wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>  I am looking for any video games that may be played by a blind
> >>>>>> person even if not made for blind people just something that wouldn't
> >>>>>> be too difficult for a blind person to play.  My son has been asking
> >>>>>> me to play games with him and I have been doing some research online
> >>>>>> and there are articles about blind people playing different games but
> >>>>>> I haven't had any luck finding out what those are.  If you have any
> >>>>>> ideas of any video games and what system they are for I would really
> >>>>>> appreciate it.  Thanks so much for any help you can give me
> >>>>>> Linnie
> >>>>>>
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