a11yTOConf2020

Evolution Of Accessibility In Far Cry

Speaker: Ivan Kulbych
@Ubisoft

• 253 million people live with visual impairment
• 70% of ACO (Assassins Creed Odyssey) players played with Subtitles
• If you have any type of chat on your game, it should be CVAA compliant
• FC5 accessibility was really low.
• FC New Dawn
  • Control Remapping
  • Color blind mode
  • Subtitles improved (size, speaker, background)
  • SFX visualization
  • Voice to Text
  • Menus narrator (text to voice)
  • Chat Wheel

Keyboard remapping

• Should be standard in every game
• Keyboard image with button remapping
• Screen feedback
• Colorblind options
  • Can set this option to improve visual for most colourblindness
• Subtitles option
• Screen Reader allowed for Menu narration & Chat wheel
• Scaling Closed Captions
• Scaling HUD

Accessibility Testing

• UX lab @Bucharest
  • Checklist
  • Accessibility standards
• Accessibility Experts
  • Workshops for the team
  • Testing the early build & recommendations
• User testing
  • Game needs to be almost final

Far Cry 6 Accessibility

• Customize Colour Blind Palette
• Keyboard remapping: using 1 or 2 buttons at the same time

Resources

• http://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/
• https://dagersystem.com
• https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
• https://accessible.games/accessible-player-experiences/