The game creates a three dimensional environment which can be explored by relying on a player’s sense of hearing.
Designer Pablo Mera explained his approach to the project. “We are not aiming at making a game for blind people... we are aiming at making an incredible new experience for everybody, that happens to level the field so blind people won't feel excluded.
The conference will bring together policy makers, interest groups and industry leaders, and the accessibility of media for people with disabilities will be a key concern during the event. The sessions will be streamed live online with captions, showing the depth of ACCAN’s commitment to accessibility.
The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 reinstated audio description quotas for television. The main television services will have to comply with this by 1 July 2012, delivering the service on a second audio channel on set-top boxes. The NAB argued that introducing audio description for mobile TV will be more difficult, as mobile receivers will need to be modified to receive the service.
The TVTechnology website includes commentary on the issue.
This could explain why captioner Javier Arriaga was welcomed onto the stage at the Deafness Forum Captioning Awards this month with cheers and whistles. Presenting him with the award for ‘Most consistent captioning’, Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley called him “the best captioner in Australia, probably the world”.
