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An American player bad blind complained to the United States against Sony, by requiring the video game publisher that makes its massively multiplayer games accessible to victims with disabilities. It evokes the manufacturer rape under U.S. law on disability. Problem that arises once again access the new consumer technologies to blind despite often their lives.

The visually impaired also have the right to play. This is the message that appears to defend a complaint filed against Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Online Entertainment by Alexander Stern, someone who is blind American who criticizes the Japanese business not to make its games available players victims of a visual impairment. Filed in California, the complaint alleges that Sony violates a U.S. law on disability, which provides that “no individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and can equal enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations in a place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases, or operates a place of public accommodation. ”

The complainant alleges that Sony did not make its massively multiplayer games accessible to persons with disabilities. Without citing examples, on20080812.jeux-viedo course think of Everquest, the most successful editor in MMORPG. Alexander Stern seems to think that a public server multiplayer game is a “bond of public accommodation” that must comply with the rules of non-discrimination of disability.

He cites good students, like Blizzard, which authorizes the installation of add-ons made by third parties for World of Warcraft, which facilitate access to the title game for people with disabilities. Similarly, the game of Pin Interactive Terraformers make life easier for partially sighted with high contrast graphics, audio compass, and audio commentary to detail the objects collected in the game.

Stern has sent several e-mails and postal mail, remained unanswered. Allege financial loss, a string a little big to demand damages. According to the victim, not making efforts to make its games accessible to the disabled, the editor would have allowed Stern to take advantage of its platform for the auctioning of virtual objects Station Exchange, which allows players to earn the hard currency.

Totally ignored by the general public, the problem of accessibility of video games is a concern that is not new to those involved. The International Association of Game Developers (IGDA) has opened a dedicated workgroup, whose blog is richly supplied since September 2007. There are several forums and websites dedicated with Game-Accessibility.com or DeafGamers site dedicated to the deaf. Case if its going to be a first term, a disabled person relies on the courts to change attitudes among game publishers.

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