[nabs-l] new nfb products for accessibility

[William ODonnell]

This and many other reasons are making me make a major decision to leave this country.  In the event that I become a parent, I will be sure to not raze my children here to be forced to learn the falasies about how all are equal and all have equal rights, etc while there parent is home on PA fighting to be gainfully emploied.  I want all to read a book entitled disableing america.  It is a great book about how this country caused hate and anger both in error and purpose by passing the ADA.  In addition, the book shows how the ADA created a goldmine in the advancement of careers for lawyers.  

--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Josh Kennedy <jkenn337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Josh Kennedy <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nabs-l] new nfb products for accessibility
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 7:28 PM
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:03:44 -0500
> From: Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 at gmail.com>
> To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers at audyssey.org>
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream brands and how to work
> with them
> 
> Hi Eleanor,
> 
> While I agree with you that we, as blind gamers, must
> continue to try
> and contact mainstream developers and make them aware of
> our needs we
> also have to remember all of us have a biological time
> clock. For
> example, I'm already in my mid 30's and for a human being
> that is
> about roughly half the human life span. I shouldn't have to
> wait 10,
> 20, or 30 years to see some access changes being done in my
> life time.
> I should be able to experience and enjoy some of these
> games right
> here and now. While there are groups like IGDA trying to
> get changes
> they aren't going to get these companies into making any
> changes soon,
> and certainly not force companies to go back and remake
> every single
> game they have ever designed with accessibility. Which is
> exactly what
> they need to do to make it fair that each and everyone of
> us have an
> opportunity to play these games.
> 
> This is were the problem comes in. I know full well what
> what the
> copyright laws say, and pretty much how they work. Problem
> is
> companies have been able to use copyright laws as a means
> of denying
> equal access to products and services for years. If I want
> to play a
> certain vidio game I can't because it is not accessible,
> and the
> company can use copyright laws to keep me from producing my
> own
> accesssible version. If I want to listen to a certain movie
> with audio
> description I often have to have someone send me a copy
> from the U.K.
> so I can listen to it with audio description because the
> American
> broadcasting companies rarely if ever have audio
> description. There
> are probably hundreds of other examples, but the fact is
> when it comes
> to fair and equal treatment a blind man or woman always
> gets the short
> end of the stick. Somehow large mainstream companies always
> get the
> gold mine while we get the shaft.
> 
> To get back to the point I'm tired of the should of, would
> of, could
> of line. It is time we do something pretty major to make
> access
> changes now with or without the companies permission. If
> they don't
> like it and sue for copyright infringement I'll be happy to
> go on CNN,
> Fox News, or any major media outlet of your choice and
> expose these
> companies for the unsympathetic, short sighted, greedy
> jurks they are.
> Perhaps some media publicity of this issue will light a
> fire under
> their collective butts and make them aware some of us are
> sick and
> tired of being stone walled, denied, and/or being outright
> ignored. We
> want access changes and we want them now and not 50 years
> from now.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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