A few minutes in you see him using Navi to help him target items. I really like this idea for an accessible game. You've got a little audio "fairy" to help you know which way to go or where to strike. Also, he must have an amazing mental map of the game world. Perhaps we could sell teachers on games as helping kids build mental maps.
June, a teacher from Macon Ga., wrote asking for new Braille games.
Seems to me this has significant potential as a platform for ET apps.
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These could be very useful for accessible games.
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If we could get the audio sent to our own server we could build SamiSays in the browser.
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Seems to me this service has great potential for kids with learning disabilities. Might enable a sort of skimming for blind people as well.
This should enable schools with IE-only policies to access our site. We should test this and add whatever flags are necessary to Hark.
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Browser-based time-independent games could make great ET projects.
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I've been talking with Diane and Anish about ideas for simple sound games that will help children who are blind learn to navigate. I'm writing these notes to help us get on the same page in our understanding about what would be helpful and what might be possible. Of course, much more could be done with the amazing technology Anish has in hand but I'm thinking very simply here to hopefully enable implementation in the web browser so anyone can play online.
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I think I see how to make the