[nabs-l] Xbox 360 Accessibility

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I wanted to throw something else out, too. A lot of the games that use 
the XNA framework can also run on the PC, so making audio games work on 
this wouldn't be to hard, if that helps much with the accessibility 
deal. There will need to be some sort of self voicing deal to start the 
games though, depending on how you distribute them, which as far as I'm 
aware is not built into the XBox yet.
HTH,
On 6/27/2012 1:58 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> The XBox is a custom platform, most of everything runs on the .net 
> framework. Since it supports reflection (being .net), making it 
> accessible shouldn't be a huge issue. It is not, however currently 
> accessible. There are a few platforms that work on XBox, Netflix, for 
> example. Apart from gaming you also have music and the like as well. 
> Alternative solutions exist to this though; appleTV is a lot cheaper 
> and still allows for netflix, and through ITunes you can just stream 
> your music across the local network.
>
> I do not see much of a point in making this platform accessible, until 
> (and unless) someone decides to write audio games for it. There are 
> games that can be played if you sit down and figure them out, but from 
> this point it seems more cost effective to just write games for the PC.
> On 6/27/2012 1:28 PM, Justin Salisbury wrote:
>> Dear List:
>>
>> I was asked yesterday to research accessibility issues with the Xbox 
>> 360 for a meeting at the national convention.
>>
>> I am seeking two main pieces of information:
>>
>> 1. Services beyond gaming offered via the Xbox 360
>> 2. Accessibility barriers to those services
>>
>> If you have any information that may be helpful to me, please contact 
>> me directly at
>>
>> president at alumni.ecu.edu
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> Justin M. Salisbury
>> Class of 2012
>> B.A. in Mathematics
>> East Carolina University
>> president at alumni.ecu.edu
>>
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