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Good ol' Audyssey. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/22/2005, 9:02am PST
Fussbett wrote:

While perusing issue #42 of Audyssey magazine (yes, THAT Audyssey magazine, the one for blind gamers), I came across this piece.

The gender thing

Admittedly, I'm a baby as far as gaming goes.

But I noticed something rather interesting.

When I first came upon accessible game sites, I thought I'd struck oil--and
I had. Thanks to talented and imaginative, not to mention dedicated people,
blind people can role play, shoot 'em up, fight monsters and explore the
galaxy or eat dots and flee from ghosts as Pacman.

...



Haha, I like that you left the hard returns there. They really haven't developed the equivalent of a bumping-into-shit cane for the Internet yet, resulting in sad attempts at the blind trying to format their articles, with another example being here where I guess they went the other way and didn't hit enter unless they had to. Is it that hard to pass their articles to their one friend who can see who can sort that out for them? Are they doing that already and that friend simply letting it go and telling them he fixed it?

(They also review my game from the 1999 Interactive Fiction comp in the link above and hate it, as of course blind people are part of that larger group that tended to dislike it: people.)

A friend of mine can't see and uses text-to-speech software to get around on the net. He tells me that he cannot post on Caltrops due a problem with his software locating the post and reply button, so I guess the wave of hate posts all brailled together in DOS's mode 80 will have to take place elsewhere.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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I've found Zseni again, and this time she's blind! (and stupid) by Fussbett 03/21/2005, 4:52pm PST NEW
    Good ol' Audyssey. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/22/2005, 9:02am PST NEW
        Re: Good ol' Audyssey. by Ray of Light 03/23/2005, 1:10pm PST NEW
            You can't?! What browser? NT by Fussbett 03/23/2005, 1:13pm PST NEW
                Firefox!!! You can tab to it but pressing enter just clears the form NT by Ray of Light 03/23/2005, 1:18pm PST NEW
                    Oh!!! Blind people should use IE!!! NT by Fussbett 03/23/2005, 3:40pm PST NEW
 
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