Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGe4dzlukc

by dEnigma • 8 years ago

35 9 8 years ago

Very interesting video! Thanks for the share! It's a point I'd never considered...

dEnigma• 8 years ago

You're welcome! I also hadn't thought much about this topic before, which is one of the reasons why I shared this video. I did hear about the Minecraft subtitle/closed caption initiative back when development of it was active, but sooner or later forgot about it again.

ARayOutOfBounds2• 8 years ago

And I guess that's the whole point, these types of accessibility issues keep being left as an afterthought rather than the standard

olliej3• 8 years ago

The irony (hoping I’m not doing an Alanis here) of he being an audio only video is excruciating.

Again: I am super done with 5+ minute videos that would be faster to read and more universally available as an article or slideshow.

I can’t comment on the content because I’m not somewhere I can listen, and I don’t want to spend 20 minutes listening.

sdrothrock2• 8 years ago

The irony (hoping I’m not doing an Alanis here) of he being an audio only video is excruciating.

The video has accurate subtitles. The content is also fairly well matched to the narration; it shows lots of great examples of what to do and what not to do.

olliej3• 8 years ago

The video takes 13 minutes, so the subtitles also take 13 minutes (that’s why I explicitly mentioned time).

So even if I did read it at the extraordinarily slow rate of spoken word, it would not contain information that could have been conveyed in an article that took 13 minutes to read.

As for “lots of great examples”: I have literally no problem with videos in an article, that’s one of the big advantages articles on the web have over printed pages. I suspect that with a textual summary on each clip and the detailed body article the actual value of the example would be much better.

I think a good way of assessing the time/value of a video like this would be to copy out the transcript, and then put the appropriate clip at each point in the article. If you do that you’ll find there is way less information than warrants a 13 minute video.

[edit: it’s 13 minutes, not 20. Who knows how my brain got there, but that will teach me for not verifying numbers before posting them :)]

LoSboccacc• 8 years ago

another great example is patapon, a rhythm game that's still quite accessible thanks to the border visual cues about the beat to follow, i.e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK-yfRlrZE

Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing [video]

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