{"id":2392,"date":"2009-08-10T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2009-08-10T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T19:51:51","slug":"universal_desig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Universal Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting tidbit as I was getting my gaming news fix. The creators of the forthcoming <i>Half-Life Episode 3<\/i> (for the uninitiated, <i>Half-Life<\/i> is a popular shoot-&#8217;em-up) have revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5332698\/valve-studying-sign-language-for-deaf-half+life-character\">the game may include a deaf character<\/a>. According to the article, the game&#8217;s designers are studying sign language and developing technology that will accurately render signing in the game. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s encouraging to see that videogame makers are cognizant of deaf people&#8217;s existence and are taking the time to include them in their games. As games grow in both scope and sophistication, they can and should include a cast of characters who reflect the dizzying gamut of human identities and experiences. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting tidbit as I was getting my gaming news fix. The creators of the forthcoming Half-Life Episode 3 (for the uninitiated, Half-Life is a popular shoot-&#8217;em-up) have revealed that the game may include a deaf character. According to the article, the game&#8217;s designers are studying sign language and developing technology that <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2392' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-CA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}