By I was not a formal accessibility consultant on Wayward Strand, but I was still able to help improve the game’s accessibility settings all the same. In Wayward Strand, an indie game which just released at the time of posting this article, players take on the role of a 14 year
Gaming and Aging: How Accessibility Impacts Everyone Eventually
Often, when I publish episodes of Access-Ability, I’ll get someone either in the YouTube comments, or on Twitter, responding to the episode by saying something like “this is really interesting, but doesn’t affect me personally”. That’s not necessarily surprising, but I think it overlooks the fact that for many people, your current level of gaming ability will not last forever, and accessibility support that doesn’t impact you today may in the future.
Video Games Need Accessibility Standards
While the overall industry has been making positive strides forward in terms of more games becoming more accessible, as an industry we can’t so much as guarantee a game will definitely feature accurate subtitling for deaf and hard of hearing players, let alone any consistent application of more intensive accessibility support.
Blinnk and the Vacuum of Space Has Ambitious Targets for Autistic Player VR Accessibility
Toward the end of last week, I took a few days outside of the Access-Ability offices to travel to EGX, a consumer facing video game convention taking place at the Excel Centre in London. While much of the event was focused on demo booths for small indie projects and upcoming
Video Game Emulation Is Accessibility
Emulation is a form of accessibility, that much is a fact, but it’s one that’s often difficult to discuss, because conversations about video game emulation often, if not always, devolve into discussions of the moral arguments for, or against, software pircacy. For most gamers without disabilities, the only reasons to
A Sneak Peek at God of War: Ragnarok’s Accessibility Settings
Back in May of 2022, we got news that God of War: Ragnarok, the sequel to 2018’s God of War reboot, would be launching with more than 60 accessibility settings options, when it releases a few months from now on November 9th. While the initial news drop from Sony was
VRChat Screwed Over Disabled Players (But the Devs are Trying to Fix It)
Up until a couple of weeks ago, if you were to check the highest rated section in any VR game storefront, VRChat would have appeared very near the top of your search results. The game, which is more a series of social spaces than a traditional video game, allows players
Laura Dale and Steve Saylor Discuss The Last of Us: Part 1 Accessibility
Below is a transcript of a recent conversation between Laura Dale and Steve Saylor. The transcript appears below unedited, as per our video discussion. [Laura Dale] Hello everyone and welcome to a supplemental little video for Access-Ability. We’ve got a, we’ve got a guest here today. Who’s our wonderful guest
The Last of Us: Part 1 PS5 Remake Accessibility Review
Originally released for the PlayStation 3 back in June 2013, The Last of Us tells the story of Joel, a father whose daughter died during the first night of a zombie-like outbreak, trying to help Ellie, a girl with seeming immunity to the spreading plague, to cross the United States
Nintendo’s Cross-Platform Accessibility Controller, Discussed by Reggie Fils Aime
When it comes to directly comparing all three of the major console manufacturers, and the steps that they’re taking with regards to improving accessibility in video games, I think it’s fair to say that Nintendo is by quite a wide margin making the slowest progress on standardising accessibility support on
8BitDo Accessibility Controller Review
When Microsoft released the Xbox Adaptive Controller almost four years ago, it marked the first time a mainstream console manufacturer had made a push for a console to officially support an accessibility controller that was affordable and modular. Supporting 3.5mm connector and USB ports for connecting peripherals, the controller allowed
Spider-Man on Steam Deck Demonstrates the Value of Portable High Contrast Mode
When The Last of Us 2 originally released back in the summer of 2020, the game saw critical praise for the way it handled accessibility. The game not only managed to cover best practices for accessibility across the board, but it also introduced several new and exciting accessibility settings rarely
