[games_access] Better switch support for iOS AND android

[Barrie Ellis]

Sounds hopeful, but still need that utility/app to allow users to emulate gestures/taps using a switch or two, and other alternative controllers (joypads etc.). 

This looks great too I thought, with eye and head tracking over mobile devices: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/eye-tracking-tech-will-be-open-to-iphones-others/

Barrie


From: Ian Hamilton 
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:11 PM
To: games_access at igda.org 
Subject: [games_access] Better switch support for iOS AND android


Great stuff, native switch support in iOS7, which should finally mean some standardisation and reduce the headaches that devs are currently lumbered with -

http://www.iheni.com/ios7-accessibility/

Also komodo is becoming an accessibility service on android, which has some nice potential, such as the ability to map to full screen touch. If that can happen it will mean large numbers of android games - things like canabalt - becoming switch accessible,  with zero developer effort.

I don't know wether Apple's switch interface will support full screen taps rather than only taps on interface elements, but if it does, again that could mean lots of old games will instantly become switch accessible. 





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