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Games Accessibility Hub
Games Accessibility Hub

At Games Accessibility Hub, our ambition is to give players with disabilities the opportunity to play and enjoy more accessible video games.

To this end, we assist you, game creators, studios, and publishers, in better understanding the needs of gamers with disabilities, and how to fulfill them. We help you set the lore, skill tree and win conditions that will lead you to making more accessible games.

·gamesaccessibilityhub.com·
Games Accessibility Hub
Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters
Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters

Patrycja Polowczyk dives into speech accessibility and different mechanics that games implement in order to facilitate and enhance cooperation and information flow.

This talk focuses on exploring the solutions that work and those that fall short for people with speech disabilities.

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Speech Accessibility In Games From The Perspective of a Person Who Stutters
Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
We share some things you can do to make your graphic colors accessible and review the WCAG success criteria 1.4.1 Use of Color. Dax gives you some easy ways to make your maps more accessible and Chad shares the color contrast ratio for Graphics and his preferences for making line graphs more accessible.
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Colorblind Considerations when Creating Accessible Charts and Graphs
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Implement Multiple Locomotion Styles in Unity
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Implement Multiple Locomotion Styles in Unity
Incorporating diverse locomotion styles in virtual reality (VR) is crucial for creating an inclusive and accessible experience. By offering options such as teleportation, arm swinging, or free movement, VR developers can cater to different preferences, abilities, and comfort levels.
·equalentry.com·
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Implement Multiple Locomotion Styles in Unity
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Add In-App Display Settings
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Add In-App Display Settings
Meta has nine accessibility Virtual Reality Checks (VRC) for creating accessible virtual reality (VR) experiences for people with disabilities. This looks at Accessibility VCR.Accessibility.5 , which focuses on providing users with the ability to adjust display settings such as contrast, saturation, temperature, hue shift, and tint to accommodate their visual needs.
·equalentry.com·
Virtual Reality Accessibility: How to Add In-App Display Settings
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges

Large language models and the coding tools built around them (Github, Amazon Code Whisperer) have made it faster than ever to create code. However, since the majority of the code used to train these models is itself inaccessible, the code completions they offer are more often than not, inaccessible.

The good news for accessibility is, there are some important techniques that get around this problem. Come learn how it's easier than ever to build web and mobile experiences the right way from the get-go.

·youtube.com·
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
An inclusive design workflow for teams
An inclusive design workflow for teams
In this talk, Scott Vinkle will share his experience while working with Shopify's Flagship Themes team. Scott will explain how he implemented a new team-wide workflow which included accessibility in each aspect of the product creation lifecycle. This resulted in the team shipping highly accessible themes by default.
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An inclusive design workflow for teams
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
In this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
The technical challenges for minority languages can seem insurmountable; research & development is often market driven, and by definition, minority languages can’t promise large profits to Big Tech and so are overlooked. However, in this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
·youtube.com·
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
This article conducts a review of the current understanding of experts in the field as exemplified by Web design guidelines. It provides current Web design recommendations that have achieved a high degree of agreement as well as four recommendations for implementation.
·researchgate.net·
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
Born Accessible Publishing
Born Accessible Publishing
Below are a few resources to help publishers and the myriad of other new, digital content creators understand the basics of how to make content born accessible. These resources highlight the challenges that images, interactivity, math equations and other complex features pose, but also demonstrate how they can be addressed.
·diagramcenter.org·
Born Accessible Publishing
Accessible Math
Accessible Math
Making math accessible means providing multiple ways for students to interact with math content, including equations, graphs, and other notation.
·diagramcenter.org·
Accessible Math