The rising 2017 - Discrimination

[HyoMinPark]

Well for other disabilities there are systems in place - all i am saying is there should have been for this one - possibly color co-ordinate it matching numbers, letters and colors - would have made it easier. There are a lot of solutions for this issue for people with the same disability as myself - but none of these were implemented - that is my issue, i just want to know why they were not. And it would not have been violating the integrity of the puzzle itself at all.

Okay, and this solution would not work for individuals suffering from complete color-blindness, which I believe a poster in this thread commented that they suffer from. It may also pose issues for individuals that have specific color-blindness. What about them, then? Your solution to cater to these two specific disabilities inherently makes things difficult for another subset of specific disabilities.

The accusation that this puzzle is discriminatory against individuals with dyslexia and/or dyscalculia is absurd. I am pretty close to legally blind. I struggled to read the small white print on gray background for some of the numbers and letters, but you don't see me coming here to demand SE cater to my disability. Instead, I spent a little extra time on the puzzle, and guess what? I got it done. There's no time limit on the time you have to complete the puzzle once you start it; use different techniques to make it easier on you, or, better yet, ask someone for help. This is a Massively Multiplayer Online game, and there are plenty of friendly people in-game that would have no issue helping you out. Heck, you could have made a thread on here or reddit with screenshots of the first and second floor and asked posters for help, saying that you were having issues telling the difference between some of the characters.

There's no shame asking individuals for help, whether you have a disability or not. There is shame in demanding a company cater to your specific disability though. There's nothing wrong with content being accessible and easy for all individuals, disabled or not. But it is downright nearly impossible to try and cater to all disabilities without excluding others (see what I said above about your solution to color-code the numbers and letters). There are people out there who have disabilities, and instead of playing the victim and demanding special treatment and/or sympathy, they embrace their disabilities for what they are, and find ways to live as close to normally as they possibly can.

Also, if you want to start demanding sympathy and specially treatment for your condition, you should probably refrain from trying to trivialize other's conditions. No one is more or less entitled to "special treatment" over others. What may seem "silly" to you (the individual's phobia of being underwater making The Ruby Sea particularly difficult for them) is not silly to another person. So stop trying to trivialize them. Phobias and extreme phobias are classified as valid medical and mental health conditions. Whether the trigger is simulated or real or whatever, doesn't make them any less real for someone who has them.