[nabs-l] Xbox 360 Accessibility

[Beth]

Hmmmmm, I know a blind gamer who does PlayStation, but I know 
it's not the game platform you were talking about.  I don't 
exactly know how the dude plays his games, but he has playstation 
network and others.  I love RS GAmes and audio games for PC.  
Anyone heard of Cringle Crash?  Maybe I should probably play that 
game if it's good with the Mac. ... Anybody want to collaborate 
.. elaborate?
Beth

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:58:54 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Xbox 360 Accessibility

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

 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed 
citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that 
ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD

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