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EA shares six more accessibility patents News Dec 6th, 2022

EA shares six more accessibility patents

Follows the company's Patent Pledge launching last year

Xbox asking disabled players to weigh in on game accessibility News Oct 14th, 2022

Xbox asking disabled players to weigh in on game accessibility

"We aspire to empower everyone to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want"

Microsoft rolls out more accessibility tools for devs News May 12th, 2022

Microsoft rolls out more accessibility tools for devs

This is the latest action the Big M has taken to make games more accessible

EA is letting anyone use some of its accessibility-focused patents News Aug 24th, 2021

EA is letting anyone use some of its accessibility-focused patents

Includes Apex Legends' Ping system

Microsoft can now test how accessible games are for developers News Feb 17th, 2021

Microsoft can now test how accessible games are for developers

Follows the company coming up with its Xbox Accessibility Guidelines

Blizzard updates Battle.net with focus on accessibility News Jan 15th, 2021

Blizzard updates Battle.net with focus on accessibility

"This is just the beginning of new features coming... we’ll keep iterating, improving, and adding to the app over time"

Twitch donates $1m to charity AbleGamers News Nov 16th, 2020

Twitch donates $1m to charity AbleGamers

Organisation's COO Spohn says this money is "going to *literally* change the lives of thousands of people with disabilities"

Oculus is trying to make VR more accessible News Nov 13th, 2020

Oculus is trying to make VR more accessible

Facebook-owned firm introduces new recommendations for addressing a broader audience

World of Warcraft to introduce Xbox Adaptive Controller support News Apr 15th, 2020

World of Warcraft to introduce Xbox Adaptive Controller support

Blizzard confirms news after data miner finds references to gamepad integration for the MMO

Ubisoft wants to make Rainbow Six Siege accessible to colour blind players News Feb 26th, 2020

Ubisoft wants to make Rainbow Six Siege accessible to colour blind players

The games has been out for four years

Catering for disabled people in games is potentially good for business, according to Nopia's Prehn News Jul 10th, 2019

Catering for disabled people in games is potentially good for business, according to Nopia's Prehn

One-fifth of the population is disabled in some way, so addressing this 20 per cent is probably good for growing your audience, Nopia's Felicia Prehn says

AbleGamers is embedding Accessible Play Experience Practitioners into triple-A studios News Apr 26th, 2019

AbleGamers is embedding Accessible Play Experience Practitioners into triple-A studios

“We’ve found that once we embed champions within the studio space, accessibility becomes a really cheap thing to add"

Accessible.games is a new community-driven resource site from AbleGamers News Apr 18th, 2019

Accessible.games is a new community-driven resource site from AbleGamers

AbleGamers is putting together a knowledge base of accessibility tips, while connecting disabled players with developers

Star Citizen will let players communicate via American Sign Language News Feb 12th, 2019

Star Citizen will let players communicate via American Sign Language

No-one can hear you scream in space, but that doesn’t have to be a problem

Why Microsoft is trying to make games more accessible Feature Jul 24th, 2018

Why Microsoft is trying to make games more accessible

The Big M is one of the few big companies openly introducing means for differently-abled people to enjoy video games

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