A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

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.

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.

Could a new typeface make it easier for the more than 400 million Arabic speakers around the world to read?

Type designers Dr. Nadine Chahine and Thomas Jockin joined forces to find out. They created Readex Pro in Arabic using the methodology behind Lexend, made for Latin. The name Readex was chosen as a shortened form of “reading expanded.”