[nabs-l] accessible video games

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Sep 17 03:43:21 UTC 2011


We are just to small a market for it to be worth their while.  And 
... in many instances, it just wouldn't be possible.  Many games are 
based on eye-hand coordination and can't be reproduced with sound or 
other  modalities in the same way.

Dave

At 08:00 PM 9/14/2011, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>I'm curious to get your thoughts on this question that's been in the
>back of my mind recently: Why haven't mainstream video game companies
>even attempted to make their products accessible to blind people?
>Wouldn't it grow their profits? And would it be all that difficult to
>make a video game accessible? We have described movies, after all, and
>there's the blind driver car. If they can make an accessible CAR, why
>not video games? What do others think about this issue?
>Patrick





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