[games_access] Fwd: How do blind people play games?

[Javier]

Hi Tim,

Do you know www.audiogames.net?
It have an english forum.

or www.audiojuegos.net?
It have a spanish mailing list.


2010/7/1 Sandra Uhling <sandra_uhling at web.de>

> Hi Tim
>
> thanks,
> Dennis will put this short survey into Klango.
> A platform where lots of German blind people meet.
>
> I think German as language is also ok?
>
> Regards,
> Sandra
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
> Im
> Auftrag von Tim Chase
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2010 23:38
> An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
> Cc: Mario Lang
> Betreff: [games_access] Fwd: How do blind people play games?
>
> Got this one on the Blinux (Blind Linux users) mailing list and
> thought some folks on here might be able to help Mario with some
> basics.
>
> -tim
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: How do blind people play games?
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:20:18 +0200
> From: Mario Lang <mlang at teleweb.at>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>
> Hi.
>
> I will be giving a talk at Libre Software Meeting 2010 in
> Bordeaux about the above mentioned topic.  I do know some
> things but I am actually no hardcore gamer type of guy.  So
> I was thinking that it would be very interesting to hear
> about your personal experiences so that I can avoid
> forgetting about really cool things.  I should probably
> explain that this talk is in the context of a free software
> conference, but I am not really limiting myself to free and
> open source games only.  This is not to promote non-free
> software, rather the contrary, I'd like to inspire people to
> maybe start working on free clones of the already existing
> ideas.
>
> So, if you are blind or visually impaired and you have
> played any kind of computer games in the past, please let me
> know about it.  Was the game especially designed for your
> disability, or did you use any tricks to make it playable?
> If so, what tricks did you use?  Or do you perhaps know of
> any (alive) open source project which is somehow related to
> gaming for the blind?
>
> Let me know about it.  And please reply fast, I am in the
> middle of preparing the actual slides, so the earlier I get
> your story the more likely I will be able to weave it in
> properly.
>
> Thanks.
>
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