[games_access] Subtitles and Captioning on-line petition

[Barrie Ellis]

> According to the latest PC Gamer, the Half Life 2 game will have a closed 
> captioning feature for the
>deaf and hard of hearing. It sounds like the multiplayer version is not 
>closed captioned, but the single
>player campaign is covered.


That's great news! They should be applauded for this.


Thought I'd reproduce a forum entry here. There is a petition for Subtitles 
and Captioning in games, which I recommend people sign:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Captions/petition.html

As well as taking a look at the forums at www.deafgamers.com for a lot of 
discussion around this topic.


Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk




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> According to the latest PC Gamer, the Half Life 2 game will have a closed 
> captioning feature for the deaf and hard of hearing. It sounds like the 
> multiplayer version is not closed captioned, but the single player 
> campaign is covered.
>
> It's nice to a highly anticipated game dealing with accessibility.
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> It might be interesting to find out from Valve Software exactly what they 
> did and how difficult it was to add this feature.
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