"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware

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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/they-dont-care-inside-the-triumphs-and-failures-of-accessible-gaming-hardware

Accessible hardware is on the rise, so why are so many disabled players being left behind? We investigate the state of …

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excel@lemmy.megumin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Some games don’t even have fucking KEYBINDS, which the most basic of accessibility features.

This will only change when stores (like Steam) start cataloguing these types of features and letting people setup default filters to hide all games without them.

The users have to make them hear that releasing any game without basic accessibility options is unacceptable. This will only happen when the majority is pushing for it, not just those that need the options.

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- emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  As someone whose been waiting for a filter to exclude games with 3rd party drm… Good luck waiting for that.
  
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toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
some jrpgs still suffer from tiny text (looking at you Switch)

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- Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean most games can’t even bother to give colorblind people a slider or a palette of colors to change the red outlines and tints they put on things. That’s a way easier problem to solve than variable sized text in a UI.
  
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