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Just a little word of caution: those of you who came to this thread just to troll and be cruel are being reported.

I honestly don't have the patience to put up with it, and I don't want this degrading into a flamewar.

Same thing applies to business too.

A business that alienates their paying customers is not going to get the money they want.

Apparently, they don't care that they're excluding so many people. I only know of one way to handle something like that.

When telling someone about life doesn't work, sometimes you have to just let life teach them what you couldn't. They don't want to listen? They'll get their rewards for that in the fact that people won't participate.

If they are maybe not smart enough to figure it out, they'll think that nobody is interested in events, and then there won't be any. It won't be worth it to continue having them if nobody cares (because they don't care).

The site will be that much more boring, and they'll have to do even more at the same level of intellect and business sense to try to get people to spend money here...but of course if someone doesn't have any business sense, they're never going to do what will actually work well.

Nature is far more cruel than I would ever be. I try to at least talk about things that look like they might lead to trouble...but nature strikes without warning, and in the end, everyone gets exactly what's coming based on their own potential plus their environment.

This is a hard fact that all of us disabled people have come to terms with, and learned very well. None of us would be where we are if we hadn't understood that regardless of whatever problems any of us has, we have to use the good things we have to get anywhere, because nobody's going to give us anything we don't not only earn, but fight for.

So...if they're business impaired then they'll have to maybe learn things the hard way.

Yeah well, I just found out that this subject has been brought up before. So the problem is that Gaia doesn't care, and that's not going to change anytime soon.

So the only way to really handle something like that is to care just as much as they do.

Wow...I didn't know that. The threads I browsed on the subject were mostly about people's connection speed, Flash, and Java issues. I didn't know the subject of accessibility came up, but then I didn't have alot of time for browsing the forums back then either.

So...the problem is that they just don't give a crap. Fair enough. I know how to handle that. wink

Browsing the Sims page is not going to bring hits to the Promageddon pages.

HTH.

She's mentioning it because her disability is relevant to the topic. If you don't want to hear about anybody's disability, you should probably avoid topics about disability.

My daughter's hearing impaired, and yet sings on key.

Your point is?

Your limited experience is not the same thing as a fact.

If there were puzzles, at least those of us high on brains and low on coordination would have a snowball's chance in hell of earning items.

I'm not sure if the devs or admins really care much about this issue (probably not), but I think it was worth it to at least speak up. If they didn't know they had disabled users before, they know now (though I don't see how anybody even gets through learning HTML without dealing with accessibility issues). Maybe next time they'll do better.

Certainly, there are worse things, but those aren't relevant in Site Feedback in Gaia. What's relevant here is that the game is simply not even reasonably accessible, and there are no more accessible alternatives that offer an equal level of participation.

So...people are just opting out.

That's all we're saying here. We were shut out, so we're disappointed.

It's bad enough that we weren't given any kind of alternative. You have to thought police us for not being thrilled about it?

Who died and made you gods that you should presume the right to tell us how we're supposed to feel?