'Blind' is used to cover all sorts of sight impairments, lots of people can be registered as blind but can still see to some degree, just not as well as the majority of people. I imagine that the person who is fighting against Sony will have some vision, obviously enough to see the characters on the screen just not all of the text or finer details of the graphics.beldaron said:I'm not quite sure but doesn't visually impaired cover a wide spectrum of visual disablilties not just complete blindness, i mean it also covers people who as parshally blind, extreme colour blindness etc etc.
You are right. But it would seem far too many people (as shown by the first half of this thread) are too damn ignorant to use their heads.beldaron said:I'm not quite sure but doesn't visually impaired cover a wide spectrum of visual disablilties not just complete blindness, i mean it also covers people who as parshally blind, extreme colour blindness etc etc.
Except its been done before...so this isn't groudbreaking stuff.Iron Mal said:a) be difficult to impliment without making it ostentaious or comedic (who can honestly say that the audio descriptions that some films have aren't funny?)
No effort is necessary on Sony's part. They don't have to go out of their way like Valve has decided to do on their own. There are plenty of third-party modifications that can be added if Sony allowed its MMO's to do so.Iron Mal said:b) would only be used by a small percentage of players (making it more effort than it's worth).
Indeed, and as it is a luxury item, and not a necessary one, I fail to see how it is discrimination. Like someone else said, are musicians discriminating against the deaf because they can't hear it?Proteus214 said:I know that a lot of companies are getting into making games more accessible to the handicapped, but making a game accessible to the visually impaired is incredibly difficult.
Dictation.SpiritMacardi said:If he's blind, how the heck did he even find the game to ***** about it? And how did he write e-mails for that matter?
Yup it includes those. Title says blind but the text says visually impaired so im wondering if hes blind or visually impaired. To be honest if you CANT play a game then don't play it, dont end up suing developers.beldaron said:I'm not quite sure but doesn't visually impaired cover a wide spectrum of visual disablilties not just complete blindness, i mean it also covers people who as parshally blind, extreme colour blindness etc etc.
Just blind people who keep getting sold the same game over and over.timax said:Wait...People still play Everquest?!
When I was like 10 I knew a blind kid who would play Super Mario Bros. And I don't mean "visually impaired", but like his eyes never opened and he didn't see anything. I can't imagine the level of frustration and memorization required to get through even a level of that game without being able to see.Barky13 said:How would a blind person play games at all? Yes, an audio compass and text-to-voice are both good ideas but I can't imagine the situation being very enjoyable. Then again, that may just be because I'm so used to being able to see.