[games_access] Sign Language for hearing impaired gamers in Half Life 2: Episode 3?

[oneswitch at googlemail.com]

Sign Language in games will be great - but just like the spoken language - 
there are many different versions and many different dialects. I wish there 
was a Sign Esperanto. As it stands someone from the USA and someone from the 
UK would struggle to understand one another using their native sign 
language - although there is some common ground. Uncommond ground includes a 
completely different alphabet for instance between the USA system (one 
handed) and the UK system (two handed).

I can see the day though - just as we have different language packs for 
operating systems - one day - there'll be different language packs for 
gaming. One day...

Wish they taught sign langugage at schools. Find it such a useful thing 
personally to the limited extent that I use it.

Barrie




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandra Uhling" <sandra_uhling at web.de>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Sign Language for hearing impaired gamers in 
Half Life 2: Episode 3?


Hi,

do not know much about hearing impaired.
Is this right?
When we provide sign language, we still have to provide subtitle?

I read that some deaf people do not learn the sign language.
They learn the "normal" language and this is good in real live,
but can be a problem in virtual live?

Can we in some day have avatars, where you can do lip-reading?
I think at the moment it is not possible?

Best regards,
Sandra
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