This is a glorious day indeed! Gamers who love the RPG genre, rejoyce! Finally, the great company that brought us Final Fantasy, and the other great company that brought us Dragon Quest, Star Ocean, etc. will be one! How I thought this day would never come! Just imagine! Perhaps we will have a game with a Final Fantasy-style story, combined with the awesome gameplay and battle system of something like Star Ocean! This is truly a good day for the RPG world!
...do you honestly believe that there are no blind people who are using computers?
You've got a point! I know a lot of people who are blind or very nearly so who use computers. My dad has a friend who's fingers and toes have decayed, and who can't see, and he uses his computer using a text-to-speech module and a keypad for inputting Morse Code. He is very fast, and can type nearly as fast as some non-impaired people I know! So, there are ways that it can be done. Congress really needs to make a ADA-esque bill that relates to cyberspace so that definite standards can be made.
My dad has a good friend that has some sort of degenerative disease that makes his fingers and toes decay, and also makes his vision fade very quickly. A book like this will help people to write websites that he can access too. He has a screen reading device that reads the screen to him, and he also has a small touch pad that he enters morse code to enter keystrokes. He can "type" almost as fast as some non-afflicted people that I know! But, anyways, I think that this book will be very good for any webdesigner out there that is willing to look out for people like him.
This is similar to how the 12-year old kid who obtains a pirated copy of Photoshop to fool around with isn't really causing a net loss for Adobe because he wouldn't be able to shell-out the $650.00 (or whatever it is these days) for Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
I agree. Software companies always complain about people who steal their software, but those people that steal it would likely never be able to buy it. My friend pirated 3d Studio Max from Kazaa, and he would NEVER have the $3000 for that. So, the company's not taking any sort of loss, right?
Having a daughter like that must be awesome! Me and my brother were grown up on FPSes (My dad used to play Doom + Doom2 till 3 am...), and we play them habitually. But, if I had a sister, I'd do my darndest to make sure that she was as big an FPSer as I am... Anyways, *runs off to play QIIIA*
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This is a glorious day indeed! Gamers who love the RPG genre, rejoyce! Finally, the great company that brought us Final Fantasy, and the other great company that brought us Dragon Quest, Star Ocean, etc. will be one! How I thought this day would never come! Just imagine! Perhaps we will have a game with a Final Fantasy-style story, combined with the awesome gameplay and battle system of something like Star Ocean! This is truly a good day for the RPG world!
...do you honestly believe that there are no blind people who are using computers?
You've got a point! I know a lot of people who are blind or very nearly so who use computers. My dad has a friend who's fingers and toes have decayed, and who can't see, and he uses his computer using a text-to-speech module and a keypad for inputting Morse Code. He is very fast, and can type nearly as fast as some non-impaired people I know! So, there are ways that it can be done. Congress really needs to make a ADA-esque bill that relates to cyberspace so that definite standards can be made.
I guess this means I can /. on my mobile phone and be able to read without scrolling, eh? ^^;
My dad has a good friend that has some sort of degenerative disease that makes his fingers and toes decay, and also makes his vision fade very quickly. A book like this will help people to write websites that he can access too. He has a screen reading device that reads the screen to him, and he also has a small touch pad that he enters morse code to enter keystrokes. He can "type" almost as fast as some non-afflicted people that I know! But, anyways, I think that this book will be very good for any webdesigner out there that is willing to look out for people like him.
This is similar to how the 12-year old kid who obtains a pirated copy of Photoshop to fool around with isn't really causing a net loss for Adobe because he wouldn't be able to shell-out the $650.00 (or whatever it is these days) for Adobe Photoshop 7.0. I agree. Software companies always complain about people who steal their software, but those people that steal it would likely never be able to buy it. My friend pirated 3d Studio Max from Kazaa, and he would NEVER have the $3000 for that. So, the company's not taking any sort of loss, right?
Having a daughter like that must be awesome! Me and my brother were grown up on FPSes (My dad used to play Doom + Doom2 till 3 am...), and we play them habitually. But, if I had a sister, I'd do my darndest to make sure that she was as big an FPSer as I am... Anyways, *runs off to play QIIIA*