By revealing its accessibility features months in advance, has Prince of Persia set a precedent?
support for the Hori Flex implicitly, I’d take that as a win.
SightlessKombat: A big win would be seeing more developers and publishers factoring in remote work as a core implementation in accessibility consultancy, opening up engagements to a worldwide audience. As for comparatively smaller wins, it’d be good to see at least a few fully playable games release in 2024 for gamers across the spectrum of sight loss, or at the very least announcements of games coming next year that we can look forward to because they’ll have the features we need to play without sighted assistance. That’s why 2023 was such a big year, because people knew there to really look forward to.
Laura Dale: I hope we see more publishers and developers during Summer Games Fest following Ubisoft’s lead, not only in discussing accessibility for their games at the time they’re interpreted and audio described versions of their showcases.
Also, I hope we see a push for games to include the lyrics of songs in their subtitles, even when they’re licensed tracks with associated fees involved. If you’ve paid for hearing players to hear a licensed song in a scene, ensure deaf players don’t miss out on that context.
Stacey Jenkins: I’d love to see more accessibility roles across the industry and for it to be recognised as its own discipline. There are plenty of specialists out there working on accessibility in their current role, who deserve the time to focus on it full-time. Our players deserve it too - we can’t get the work done without investing in the people that make it happen.
Laura Dale: I’d love to see the industry at large share accessibility advancements. Let’s get working on a cross platform accessibility controller so disabled gamers don’t each console they play. Let’s start organising conferences explicitly
centred around teaching how developers created depth for other developers to learn from and replicate. Let’s see more open-source tools released to enable quick implementation of accessibility Let’s see engine creators themselves create development-level accessibility tools available for game creators to easily access. I’d love to see a noticeable ramp up in this kind of open collaboration, as accessibility is one place the industry really should put aside competition to best serve disabled players.
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