Video Games: Access for All -- KQED QUEST

Can someone who's quadriplegic or hearing impaired play a video game? QUEST takes you to the international Game Developers Conference celebrated recently in San Francisco, where a group of gamers used colorful tactics to convince mainstream developers to make video games that are accessible for everyone.

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[ginginnyme]

This idea is really cool. :) I hope they come out with these great disability controllers. Disabled people have more time to play, so really the game industry is its own enemy not looking into this themselves. more time more play means more time to buy their games, right? makes sense to make the controllers.

[Toaster]

Oh, my squad leader in chromehounds is deaf.

[YRUACNT]

It pisses me off,that just simple accessibility options won't be put into modern games, I have a visual impairment and love FPS games, I even play in a large gaming clan, but its frustrating that I can't play on the same level as my team mates. All it would take would be some simple graphical options to make the games easier to see. Supposedly we live in equality, yeah right, its disgusting the entainment industries are getting away with discrimination.

[MsTiny72]

any ideas on playing with a quadriplegic 8 year old???

he's in hospital and bloody miserable

[darkmikasonfire]

that's awesome, i'm glad someone is out there trying to make games easier for those of us with disabilities, being blind make it next to impossible for me to play 1st person shooters along with others, or games with tons of dark spaces or super bright colorful areas. it's nice to know people are out there trying to get the big companies to make things easier for us.

[llllJakubllll]

Woah i didnt even think that was a real person from a distance.

[mellomjj]

Sorry, not me that said that... I think it's cool that this guy plays games.

[aquatix]

You really are a morbid person. Apparently you feel that any person of any handicap is clearly below you? Let me remind you of something dried up hippie, life is not about what you get out of it, but the journey in between.

[Datan0de]

Thanks for posting this interesting vid! I'm pleased to hear that there are people actively pursuing accessibility in video games. I'm not deaf, but thanks to my young adult years having been spent listening to some VERY good car stereos my hearing isn't particularly good anymore, and I definitely find captioning in games (and movies) to be helpful. As mentioned in the vid, the Half-Life games do a great job of implementing captioning!

[goten2255]

i agree there needs to be more games and more ways to play for the disability people great article and thank you for making me be aware of this issue.

[mellomjj]

what a waste of energy, spending time and money for disable people to play fuckin games. youv gotta be fuckin kidding

[boat]

when i go deaf i get them to hook the game up to my brain