[games_access] Rock Star Games and GTA IV: Pressing for greater accessibility

Reid Kimball reid at rbkdesign.com
Thu Jun 19 20:03:58 EDT 2008


Excellent, the first step for developers to overcome the devastating
effects of Closed-Captioning Absenteeism is to poke fun at themselves.
Bravo.

In all seriousness, it is kind of funny.

-Reid

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Eelke Folmer <eelke.folmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Despite GTA IV not having closed captioning, when you watch TV in GTA
> (which is very funny) there is a spoof commercial between tv shows,
> that says "commercials brought to you by ........ "  and then
> "....closed captioning brought to you by Burger Shot......" So they do
> know what closed captioning is.
>
> Cheers Eelke
>
>
>
> 2008/4/30 Barrie Ellis <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>:
>> GTA IV inaccessibilityFor those wishing to contact Rock Star directly -
>> pressing them to consider greater accessibility in future games try the
>> following links:
>>
>> For all non technical related information and questions, please email
>> mouthoff at rockstargames.com
>>
>> For more in-depth contact, please use the contact addresses at
>> http://www.take2games.com/index.php?p=global_contacts
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Barrie
>> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>> www.igda.org/accessibility
>>
>>
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