Designing for gamers with disabilities
summary
Design argues that disability is a product of barriers not conditions, backed by numbers: UK 18% with impairments, PopCap finds 20% of gamers, color blindness affects 8% of men, reading difficulty 14% of adults. Practical fixes include resizing and contrast changes (one UI took one hour to add a contrast slider), clear subtitles with letterboxing toggles and OS accessibility APIs, movable touch controls in Zenonia and Need for Speed’s press-anywhere steering, and Into the Dead adding alternate schemes with an almost 25% split of players using each option.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00What is disability
- 4:15Vision
- 6:52Hearing
- 8:14Fun
- 10:01Motor Accessibility
- 11:14Avoiding Complexity
- 12:31Into the Dead
- 13:30Conclusion
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