Accessibility

What is accessibility

• Some players have conditions that can make your game more difficult to play, including:
  • colorblindness
  • vision impairment
  • hearing disabilities
  • motor disabilities
• To ensure your game can be played by the widest audience possible, consider accessibility (suom. esteettömyys, saavutettavuus)

Rules of thumb

• In many cases, good design is accessible design
• When conveying critical information, do not rely on a single sense
  • Instead of using just color to signify something, use color & shape!
  • Use sound to convey information as well
    • some fighting games do it well enough that they can be played blind competitively
  • Also, have subtitles for spoken dialogue
• Controls
  • Remappable controls
  • Alternatives to rapid tapping (it’s not that fun anyway…)

Reading & watching

• Game accessibility guidelines
• GMTK: Designing for disability