Accessibility Switch
Speaker: Ian Hamilton
Games can really profoundly change people’s lives
Games represent access to culture and socializing.
Why games?
Candy Crush is a great example of color blindness disability.. Until they introduced the bombs.
Input device (control) complexities increases the complexity of the game
How to make game accessible?
- Communicate information in more than one way
- Allow some flexibility in how the game is played
www.gameaccessibilityguidelines.com
Accessible Gaming
- Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
- Option to turn to greyscale
- Xbox : accessible control
- Easy to open packaging
- Communication:
- www.gamecritics.com
- Ubisoft advertising what they support & don’t support for accessibility.
- Tomb Raider blog posts on accessibility features.
- Games
- EyeMine software for Minecraft
- Flat Heroes (example of accessible game)
- Madden updated to be accessible for blind players
- State of Decay
- God of War (subtitle sizes)
- Spiderman (big subtitles, subtitle background, hud background)