AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 1, 2009 @08:59PM from the gaming-for-all dept.

eldavojohn writes "Early last month a visually impaired gamer sued Sony under the Americans with Disabilities Act (and if you think that people with disabilities don't play games, think again). The AbleGamers Foundation has decided to step forward and provide a rating system for games that blends together a number of factors to determine a score with regard to accessibility. Visual, hearing, motion, closed captioning, speed settings, difficulty settings and even colorblindness options are all taken into account when compiling these scores and reviewing these games."

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Not good enough by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-01 21:01 · Score: 1, Funny

The rating should also take into account how many of the NPCs are black Jewish vegetarian lesbian quadriplegic single mothers.
Good news by azior · 2009-12-01 21:10 · Score: 4, Funny

I know a game for people with a handicap: golfing
On a serious note: this is good news, gaming/entertainment could get really mature
Re:This is absolute nonesense by ph0rk · 2009-12-02 01:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't ever tell me what I can't do!

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