[games_access] PBS Game/Show does a bit on Disability/Accessibility

[Dan Fischbach]

PBS Game/Show is always great. I left a comment on the video:

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Legally blind game developer here. Just a FYI that there's a Special
Interest Group (or SIG) of the +IGDA known as the Game Accessibility SIG.
We're doing what we can for disabled gamers. (Come see us every year at
GDC!) As far as I'm aware game engines actually don't have the tools to
implement accessibility features easily into games that are made with them
so it's up to each developer to implement their own version of
accessibility features. (if they even think about that) The closest thing I
can think of to speed this up would be some feature or plugin you can buy
for the +Unity game engine that someone else has made but even then not
everyone uses Unity for development.
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Feel free to reply to it on YouTube to spread the SIG representation! :-)

Dan Fischbach, Net+, MCP
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Steve Spohn <steve at ablegamers.com> wrote:

> That was really fun video. AbleGamers even showed it at SOE.
>
> Between the heavy use of Includification and the shout out to AbleGamers
> giving away FREE consultation, I was quite pleased. They even made sure to
> add close captioning at our request so that it was not an inaccessible
> video talking about accessibility :D
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Dan Fischbach <blindwolf8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just a FYI:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyASY5wv_Qo&hd=1
>>
>> Dan Fischbach, Net+, MCP
>> W: danfischbach.com P: 609-458-7920
>> Proud NJIT (BS) and UCF/FIEA (MS) graduate
>> Please consider the environment before printing this email
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