Charlie Waltz
Sorry to break it to you, but Gaia is an American site.
...and in the U.S. there is an Americans with Disabilities Act that means that every business has to at least try to be accessible to people with disabilities unless they have a very good reason why not.
Every web developer learns how to make a site accessible. Gaia has no excuse for making an event that limits awards to people with (not even average but) exceptional hand/eye coordination and peripheral vision.
So it's not even *reasonably* accessible...and really there's no excuse for it but laziness or lack of forethought.
Now, it may be their right to have it that way, since it is a gaming site. Not everybody can play chess or backgammon or Sudoku, and not everybody is good at certain video games. Fair enough. Thing is, if someone can't play a game, they're not going to visit the site or bother to browse the page it's on more than the time it takes to see that it's something they can't do.
That decreases ad revenue and participation, and time spent on the site...and this is bad for business.
So as webmasters, it's in our interest to make sites, especially events, reasonably accessible. We don't have to all the time, but we do it because if we don't then we look stupid and don't make as much money.
If I was a dev on Gaia, I would feel pretty ashamed about the situation, but I'm not, so I'm just kinda shaking my head about it.
We might just have to deal with it, but we don't have to like it, or think that it was the smartest way to handle things.
