ACCESSIBILITY TO INTERNET AND COMPUTER GAMES FOR THE BLIND
I would like to explain to you how the
blind could integrate with outside world through computer by means of gaming
and online chatting. In earlier lectures, you have heard about software, by
which the blind can have access to the computer. Computers are helping them in
their studies and many other activities. Nevertheless, what do you think about
another aspect of computer known by everyone of us – the entertainment
aspect?
Speaking about computer entertainment,
we immediately think of computer games and if there is a modem connecting the
computer to the Internet, we without delay bring chatting to our mind.
What benefits games brings to us?
It does not require much explanation!
Everyone knows that playing games train skills of typing, help to learn
foreign languages, or train managing skills, flexibility in calculation and
every plane of our life.
Approach of gaming to the blind
The difference in gaming for the blind
is how the blind play the game. Normal people play games using their eyes, but
the blind focus on their hearing instead of their eyes. You will know it
better in my following examples:
In the game "Batting
practice" (training baseball), players will hear the sound of ball
bouncing from the right speaker to the left speaker and then will use the
Spacebar as bat to hit the ball. A specialist in composing games for the blind
wrote this game. He is a blind man named Jim Kitchen and now he lives and
works in the US. You can have more details about the game when you visit the
website: www.simcon.net/jkitchen
or have direct contact with Jim emailing to jimkitchen@simcon.net
Another game of sports topic is ESP
Woopass. This is a form of playing table-tennis using Left Shift, Right Shift
and Spacebar keys. In this game, players have to use their hearing to
recognize the position of the ball, and then use respective Shift keys to
catch the ball and use Spacebar to strike back. The players have to catch the
ball and strike back until the ball falls. The highest scores the players gain
will be result of the game. You can find the game at www.espsoftworks.com
The game ‘Word Play’ and game
‘Word Scramble’ will ask players to use keys of the keyboard together with
JAWS to find out the correct English words. These games are two of the eight
games of Accessible Games system of which Bung Sang. It Project has bought
licenses. For further details, please visit www.gamesfortheblind.com
From this site, you can download demo versions of all the games of the
Accessible Games system and also you can find out software that could be a
surprise for many people. That is Accessible Chat for the Blind.
It is real! This appears impossible but
this is complete reality. Moreover, this is the next matter I would like to
present to you.
Effect of chatting
Thank to chat, all obstacles and
barriers that obstruct us in communication with the outside world have been
destroyed. We can easily to make friends with everybody all over the world.
Especially, with Accessible Chat, the community of the blind all over the
world has chance to meet with each other to exchange knowledge, feelings and
for chatting and relaxing etc...
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