[games_access] Comercial Universally Accessible games

[Eleanor Robinson]

On 8/30/2011 9:41 PM, P Hogan wrote:
> G'day everyone,
>
> I'm a student at RMIT Uni Australia, and was intrigued by the work
> done at FORTH ICS in regards to creating games that can be tailored on
> they fly to suit different people with different needs. (
> http://www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games )
>
> My question was: has anyone made a commercial game using all or part
> of these principles?
>
> I feel it would be hard to encourage companies to use it if there was
> no commercially viable game to set a precedent...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat
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Hi Pat

While we are a small company, we are a commercial game company.  We have 
a control panel that allows the player to set a number of parameters to 
meet his or her needs.  We have a speed control that allows the player 
to slow a game down, a setting for voice control users that tells them 
what to say to control our games; a game voice control that will allow 
our blind-accessible games to be self voiced with SAPI; a screen reader 
control that allows certain screen readers to be used with our games; a 
video control that will allow a video to be played sound only;  a big 
type control that increases the size of all type; a captions control 
that will add captions to a video; a music control that will turn 
background music off for easier hearing of the game voice; the idle twit 
button that, if you have not done any action for 60 seconds will tell 
you the options available to you at that point.   These controls can be 
set at any point by selecting the controls button which is on the screen 
and available in the tab order.

I believe these type of controls allow a player to increase the 
accessibility for them "on the fly" as you were asking about in your Email.

Check us out at www.7128.com.

Eleanor Robinson
7-128 Software