[games_access] PC Gamer accessibility article (Steve Spohn)

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Not sure if this is related to what you've been talking about with them Steve, but they have some good Kinect sign language research going on, they already have Makaton recognition working and are looking at ASL / BSL next. 

The bad thing about MS as an organisation is that they have such high internal turnover, without consistent people in place it's difficult to get momentum behind things. Luckily though accessibility is a bit of an exception, they have a good guy there who has bucked the trend and stayed in the same area for a long time now.

Also something else on the positive side, we're no longer tied to hardware launch cycles. So much great stuff can be done just via a software update, so if their current efforts do well and get some good corporate weight behind them then other really valuable things could follow soon after. Although plenty still has to come from developers, there's also a lot of really valuable stuff that could easily be taken care of at a console level via some simple unobtrusive options.

Nintendo are a total lost cause at the moment and have said some pretty disgraceful things, but if Sony see MS capturing new audiences through simple innovations they'll be quick to imitate.

Momentum is indeed continuing to build and we will undoubtedly get there, especially as game and console developers continue to get older themselves. At the moment it's still almost all advocacy with very little consultancy, but that balance will continue to shift. This time next year things will be quite different.

Games are now such a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon that it's inevitable, and there are other industries that have already gone through exactly the same process that we can look to for examples of how it happens.

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All I can legally say is these meetings bore fruit. Hopefully it carries
over to the 720



Steve Spohn

Editor-In-Chief

The AbleGamers Foundation



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