KQED's 'Video Games - Access For All' Exposed
May 8, 2007 4:36 PM | Simon Carless
Ah, a note from a staffer at KQED Public Broadcasting in San Francisco: "We recently did a TV story on video games that are accessible for everyone for QUEST, our multimedia series on environment, science and nature."
The story is called 'Video Games - Access For All', and the KQED site has a nice quality official streaming video version of it on the above site link - which is awesome, go PBS! The official Quest blog has some notes on the segment, specifically: "QUEST TV takes you to the international Game Developers Conference celebrated recently in San Francisco, where a group of gamers used colorful tactics to convince mainstream developers to make video games that are accessible for everyone."
Barrie Ellis of OneSwitch has some nice comments in the Quest blog post, too: "A very fine video, touching on most of the main points of game accessibility. Can’t say that I agree with Noah Falstein’s thoughts that main-stream developers will likely never embrace accessibility. Many of the features essential to disabled gamers add very little development time if thought out in advance, and can offer much to the main-stream. For example - speed control, reconfigurable controls and closed captions can benefit all gamers."
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Thank you for the link. FYI, there is an error in the script which your followers are sure to catch; we reversed the console makers' Sony and Microsoft names in one of the voice overs.
We are fixing it tomorrow!
Craig Rosa - KQED QUEST | May 8, 2007 7:44 PM