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On The Overlooked World Of 'Accessible Gaming'

Posted by simoniker on from the helping-players-play dept.

Thanks to TotalGames for reprinting a GamesTM piece discussing hardware and software that opens up videogaming to blind, deaf or physically impaired people. The piece notes "an increasing number of games created for the accessible market, and 'high-street' games [that] can be adapted to meet individual needs", although programmer Nick Adamson comments: "Currently the accessible games market is purely based on the PC... as for game consoles, they are pointless to blind gamers."

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  1. Interactive Fiction by metamatic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the risk of pointing out the very obvious, Interactive Fiction will work fine for blind users, via a screen reader. There are many excellent freeware IF games, comparable to Infocom's finest.

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