[games_access] Game Accessibility Info label

[Barrie Ellis]

Changing the subject back to a good one Eleanor made on a Game Accessibility labelling system... Hope people might find this of interest:

http://www.gamebase.info/magazine/read/game-accessibility-information-symbol_881.html 




Presently, it's a pilot system sitting with SpecialEffect, but I'm hopeful I can persuade them to free it up for anyone to use, with guidance on how best to use it.

Best wishes all,

Barrie


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From: "Eleanor Robinson" <eleanor at 7128.com>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:16 PM
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Subject: [games_access] games access

> Hi - I agree with most of you that not all games can be accessible to 
> all people.  BUT, they can be more accessible than they currently are.  
> A combination of accommodations that are not excessively costly to 
> include would improve accessibility for many.  Variable speeds, 
> re-mappable controls, color blind accommodation, and pre-sets like 
> auto-aiming and so forth could make a game much more playable.  Closed 
> captioning for speech and meaningful sounds for the deaf, and audio 
> descriptions for the  blind would be more expensive, but doable.
> 
> One of the things I feel strongly would help developers to think about 
> accessibility would be to label games as to their accessibility.  If 
> developers had to say a game was not accessible to (whatever), they 
> would be more inclined to build in something that would improve the 
> accessibility to that group.  It also would encourage thinking about 
> what accommodations might improve the accessibility.
> 
> I do agree that our efforts should be focused on making games  
> accessible to more people, not looking for the silver bullet of 
> universal accessibility.  I think we should also focus on the fact that 
> making games more flexible in their play, increases the appeal of the 
> games and increases the revenue for those games.  And we, as gamers, 
> need to take care of ourselves and others as we age and make sure we can 
> still play the games we want to because they have that flexibility we 
> need in order to see, hear and manipulate the controls.
> 
> Eleanor Robinson
> 7-128 Software
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