Please Sign Petition To Make PokemonGo Access

Category: Let's talk

Post 1 by Daenerys Targaryen (Enjoying Life) on Wednesday, 27-Jul-2016 7:57:11

https://www.change.org/p/john-hanke-niantic-inc-petition-to-make-pok%C3%A9mon-go-playable-by-blind-and-vi-players-on-android-and-ios?recruiter=23188635&utm_source=petitions_share&utm_medium=copylinkPiotr

Post 2 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 02-Aug-2016 16:21:37

ok, question... why this game? there are so many games that I like but need to be accessible. just saying.
who created this? Thanks for this cuz all my sited friends are talking about it and I'm like, I want it but... it's not accessible for me.

Post 3 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 20:06:42

Hey, whatever gets blind people - and everyone else - out and exploring their environment. Just don't be poke stopping at my house.

Post 4 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 20:24:05

haha

Post 5 by forereel (Just posting.) on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2016 22:33:58

This game has absolutely exploded world wide.
Cool.
I think it be difficult for a blind person to play without a partner though.

Post 6 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 08-Aug-2016 12:04:24

true. I've heard it's dangerous. it's just me though.

Post 7 by forereel (Just posting.) on Monday, 08-Aug-2016 12:45:46

Oh, I don't think dangerous. That is up to the players how much risk they will take.

Post 8 by hardyboy09 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 18-Aug-2016 0:43:55

Does anyone know the progressof this app in terms of accessibility?

Post 9 by little foot (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 27-Oct-2016 15:39:49

I do not know how the progression of this app is but I am pretty sure you can look it up on line.

Post 10 by Senior (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 27-Oct-2016 17:51:27

I'd rather sign a petition demanding that every popular craze and everything that goes viral is made so inaccessible that no blind person shall ever be able to use it, no matter how good accessibility software becomes.

Post 11 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 27-Oct-2016 19:27:27

Or or, you could just let people excersize their self control to not give into the craze.

Seriously though, no idea about the status of accessibility here. In the meantime, there is Zombies! Run!, which actually lo9oks a lot more interesting than its name implies. Seems like professional sounding audio drama mixed with running/training simulator. All the exploration without any ... poke...stops. And you get excersize.

Post 12 by forereel (Just posting.) on Friday, 28-Oct-2016 18:36:18

This game would simply be hard to play if you can't see.
If you have a guy, sure, you can do it, but alone no.
Even seeing people get lost, walk out in to traffic, run in to parking meters, you name it.
It hurts.
Laughing.
A GPS unit gives you were you are, but not what it in the way.
A lady was driving in a fog. She followed the GPS directions, and drove right down a boat slip in to a lake.
The place she wanted to go was on the lake shore, just not exactly at that spot.
Laughing.
Lucky she could swim, but her car was lost.
So, this game would simply be to difficult.
You have to go where directed and that could be the middle of a field or something.

Post 13 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 31-Oct-2016 22:27:38

yup, definitely dangerous! lol, manamon, wayyy better then this crap. :p