It seemed to me that game companies where wising up to the needs of deaf and hard of hearing gamers quite well. More and more titles were getting captioned, particularly the ones which were heavily reliant on their stories.

If a company does their programming right, it is easy to add visual accessibility into a game. Turning if off or on is that simple. They just need to plan it and be aware of it.

I remember a long time ago, buying a game called Autobots (I think), they did the whole dialog with voice only and of course, I wasn’t happy about it, so I called them about it, and I’m telling you they were shocked and apologetic about it and promised me a free edition of the new game with captioning in it. Sure enough they did send me the second version of it at no charge. They, the company, was just unaware of people high visual access play games too.

We have posted a story on this issue if you would like to know what the disabled gamers @ ablegamers.

You can read our post here
http://ablegamers.com/general-game-news/736-visually-impaired-gamer-sues-soe-for-game-accommodations-ablegamers-statement.html

Thank you
Mark Barlet
President
The AbleGamers Foundation, Inc.