[gui-talk] Different plan of attack
kenlawrence124 at aol.com
kenlawrence124 at aol.com
Fri Jan 22 13:11:08 UTC 2010
Hi List members. Cross posting this question to get different feedback on
this topic. I've been sending messages of complaint to GSN formerly Game
Show network saying that I'm not able to play the games on the site and
therefore don't have the same chance to win the Oodles points sighted people
can win to cash in for prizes. I can only answer the daily questions and
therefore win 50/100 oodles at a time. It would take me a thousand days
straight just to win enough oodles to cash in for some prizes and that is if I
get all questions right. I can't even enter the chat during GSN live and
the only way I can play a game connected to the channel is to enter the GSN
live games every day. They say they can't program the site they say since
flash is the standard on game sites they are obviously sticking with it.
It's funny how they say in replies thanks for being a part of the GSN
community. I sure feel like a second class citizen. AOL did the right thing so
why can't the people at GSN? even when the National federation of the
blind and gw Micro or Freedom scientific are brought to their attention nothing
changes. I will not accept the fact that I will never ever be able to win
all that money on bingo blitz, Yeah I can't even enter those drawings. So
rather than keep harping to deaf ears, the thought I had in mind is what
can we do to help make GSN accessible from the screen readers point of view?
Rather than making the site accessible, what can we do to make the screen
reader accessible to the site. One of the advantages of using flash is
that it is smaller in terms of drive space. A version of the Adobe flash
player is less than two MB, Whereas the windows media player or the real
player are close to or even over 20 MB. Flash does provide better quality audio
and video in a smaller player. So I'd like the opinion of Jaws,
Window-eyes, and NVDA users how we can make the screen readers work on the GSN site
and play the games there. We can lick the recent CD baby issue as well as
the Pandora issue too. of course part of my problem is dial up connection,
and I'm working on going broadband so that will be taken care of soon. So
the question is, if GSN, CD baby,or Pandora won't make the sites work with
a screen reader, what can we do to make it work the other way around? how
can we develop screen reading software to work with their sites? This is
going to take people with site to do it, but I think especially with an
Open source Screen reader like NVDA we can do it. If they won't make sites
accessible, let's try it the other way around. Many of my friends and the
members of the computer talk club of NJ are worried that the developers of
assistive technology won't be able to keep up and in a couple years we'll no
longer have any access to anything on the Internet. More and more sites
are going this direction and I think it's up to us to change it. What can we
do about this issue? I would ask that some of you take a look at that
site _www.gsn.com_ (http://www.gsn.com/) and if you are already registered,
take a look at the wonder wheel and other games especially the versions of
games that aren't generally visual like Jeopardy. There is no reason why
that isn't accessible when the show clearly is. They had blind players on
it. Family Feud too and why is the version of Deal or no Deal not
accessible. Clearly the show is. Tell me how a blind player couldn't go on that
show Huh? Let's tackle this one together. Thanks Ken.
I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the national federation
of the blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind;
to support the policies and programs of the federation; and abide by it's
constitution.
I pledge to participate actively in the efforts of the national federation
of the blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind;
to support the policies and programs of the federation; and abide by it's
constitution.
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