Wheelchair Slalom is a sport for people with cerebral palsy, in which the players go through a course made up of various obstacles and tests in the shortest time possible. ‘Slalom, the Videogame’ provides an insight into the sport without…
Category: Closed Captions
Design Tips For: Subtitled Games
Full subtitles (aka Closed Captions if you live in the USA or Canada) in a game, can make the world of difference to deaf and partially-hearing players. Now that games and films have so many parallels, imagine how hard it…
Subtitles: Increasing Game Accessibility
Gamasutra have published an excellent article that presses home the benefits of including full subtitles (aka Closed Captions in the USA) in video games. Read on here.Link via: Reid Kimball. More on the meaning of 888 here.
Ubisoft
It seems as though Ubisoft’s grand gesture to game accessibility stretches as far as adding basic text subtitles to future games. This is a good but very basic step. A little more appreciation of “The Sound Alternative” would have been…
Ubisoft Commits To Include Subtitles In Future Products
Ubisoft have started to listen to the deaf-community struggling with their games for want of some subtitles. Scanning through the comments over at Kotaku gives an idea of the problems gamers have had – and also some of the ignorance…