{"id":967,"date":"2008-05-20T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2008-05-20T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:42:31","slug":"getting-disabled-gamers-back-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/getting-disabled-gamers-back-in-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Disabled Gamers Back In the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/agingwii.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/agingwii.jpg\" alt=\"Aging Wii Gamers\" title=\"Aging Wii Gamers\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-968\" \/><\/a>Matthew Boyd has written a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwanzoo.com\/social-trivia\/putting-disabled-gamers-back-in-the-game.shtml\">article<\/a> over at Kwanzoo discussing an issue that&#8217;s going to be becoming very important to gamers and to game developers &#8211; making games accessible for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just an issue for the the disabled community.  As gamers age and as older gamers get included in the gaming market like we&#8217;ve seen in the last couple years, the ability to cope with assistive technologies and the ergonomics of aging is going to become more and more important.  All those Wii units in old folks homes are just the leaders in a trend.  And I can tell you anecdotally that the Wiimote can be a nightmare for people with arthritis or carpel tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The article has some great stuff about how designers and developers are starting to look at this, and I hope they start looking ahead.  If you&#8217;d like to know more, I&#8217;d head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ablegamers.com\/\">AbleGamers<\/a> and start reading through the forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Boyd has written a great article over at Kwanzoo discussing an issue that&#8217;s going to be becoming very important to gamers and to game developers &#8211; making games accessible for people with disabilities. This isn&#8217;t just an issue for the the disabled community. As gamers age and as older gamers get included in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}