[games_access] eAccessibility?????

[hinn at illinois.edu]

In some countries in Asia, accessibility and disability are very difficult to translate as well. In Japan and China, "barrier-free" is used for accessible but, unfortunately, disability will often be translated to "deformity" (ie, instead of saying a person is disabled they will say that they are deformed).

So this adds to the confusion as I learned this summer!

Michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:02:36 +0200
>From: "Sandra Uhling" <sandra_uhling at web.de>  
>Subject: [games_access] eAccessibility?????  
>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
>
>Hi,
>
>I do not have words for this. I do not understand it.
>Are people so stupid?
>
>There are lots of words and terms that fail because of different
>understanding.
>You can see this very well when you look into the discussion about the new
>UN Convention.
>
>In Paris they said eAccessibility is elderly Accessibility (without disabled
>elderly people).
>The Disabled People international (DPI) says eAccessibility is ICT
>accessibility.
>In Germany they translated inclusion with integration.
>
>There are lots of developments in eAccessibility that focus only on "easy to
>use".
>Why do we spend so much money for things not all can use?
>Why do we talk and discuss so much about terms? And why do people often want
>to misunderstand words?
>Why do we still built houses (special hospitals) that ignore knowledge about
>accessibility?
>
>Best regards,
>Sandra
>
>
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