ESA has announced accessible games Initiative to provide product accessibility function

Today, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the accessibility initiative for the accessibility of the video game accessibility function to provide consumers.

The initiative has been reported in today’s game developers and thought of an electronic art, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Ubisoft’s coalition. Amazon, Riot Games, Square Enix and WB games have also been included in the initiative, which will manage the ESA.

With this initiative, video game participants will label their games with important “labels” supported by the game project information and information that appear on product pages.

These tags “” clear texts “,” “large subtitles”, “” Narred menus “,” “Save”, “” Difficulty levels “,” without keeping the play button “, and others.

“Millions of Americans have a disability and often experiences that play joy and connection that often play video games,” said Stanley Pierre-Louis, Esan President and General Manager. “We are proud to be proud to announce the initiatives made with industrial managers are accessible. This initiative shows what we can have when we help more people in our industry to play.”

The labels will gradually round up and are not required. On the launch, only English will be available. The more tags or the settings of existing tags can be developed over time.

Accessible games Initiatives Tags:

Audit features

Label

Volume multi-control controls

Description

There are options to control separate volumes for different sound types.

• Volume can change separate music, speech, sound effects, background

Audio, text-voice audio, accessibility audio traces and voice chats.

• All the sounds of the game can also be changed at once using a volume control.

Label

Mono Sound

Description

Mono allows you to play with audio.

• The same audio will be sent to all channels (eg left and right headphones),

Effectively offering a combined audio channel.

Label

Stereo sound

Description

It allows you to play with Stereo audio.

• Sounds communicate from left or right.

• sounds will not communicate whether coming from above,

Below, before or behind.

Label

Sound around

Description

It allows you to play with the sound around.

• Sounds communicating where they come from, which can have any direction.

Label

Counting menus

Description

Menu and notification allows you to use the screen reader or voice narrative.

• Screen readers can access all menus, or the game provides similar functionality.

• interactions and context changes are controlled through you and announced

Narrative.

• You can move an item by menu at a time instead of driving the cursor.

Label

Chatroulette Text-Text & Text-To-Speech *

Description

The text allows you to use language and text text with other players with games.

• Text chats can be realized aloud in real time.

• Voice chatting can be read as text transcription in real time.

* This tag has hearing and visual features.

Features of play

Label

Difficulty level

Description

Allows you to choose from multiple difficulty choices, which reduces at least one option

The intensity of challenges.

• The differences between the level of difficulty are also described.

Label

Save anytime

Description

It allows you to save your progress by hand at any time.

Exceptions:

• The game is saving or charging.

• Savings can cause broken scenarios or blocked progress, such as

Death through animations.

Introduction Features

Label

Basic incoming upgrade

Description

Allows you to rearrange the controls of the button.

• Button controls can be exchanged or rearranged with other methods.

• “Input Input Renewal” Tag leaves not allow all game controls, not only the button

Control and re-enter, select which action is performed.

Label

To reset the entry

Description

Choose which action is assigned in the game.

• All control controls can be redesigned for all input methods that are directly supported, eg

Keyboard, mouse, controllers and virtual screen controllers.

• Controller’s stick functionality can be changed.

• “Basic Input Remping” tag allows you to remodel the buttons only

Simple methods button swap.

Label

The reverse stick

Description

Allows you to change how candidates affect

movement up and down and in the left and right directions.

Examples of these management entries include Taumbeta and flight sticks.

Label

Play without button

Description

It allows you to play without the button.

• It does not contain digital entries (as keys or buttons).

• Some analog entries (like sticks and launchers) should still hold on.

Label

Fast play button without pressing

Description

It allows you to avoid repetitive buttons like a button model and quick time events.

Label

Play only with keyboard

Description

To play using your keyboard only.

• The game can only be played with the keyboard without other devices.

Label

Play only the mouse

Description

It allows you to play using the mouse alone.

• This will also play using adaptation technologies with maps to mouse entries.

Label

Only with play buttons

Description

So you can play using buttons with no pressure

influence in controls.

• Matches and menus can only be controlled by digital entries (buttons or keys).

Label

Play only with the touch

Description

Tap allows you to play using only controls.

• Players do not have to use non-touch control, such as buttons or

Analog sticks.

Label

Play without control of movement

Description

Movement control allows you to play without using

Label

To play with tactless control

Description

It allows you to play touch screen or touch screen.

Visual features

Label

Chatroulette Text-Text & Text-To-Speech *

Description

The text allows you to use language and text text with other players with games.

• Text chats can be realized aloud in real time.

• Voice chatting can be read as text transcription in real time.

* This tag has hearing and visual features.

Label

Net text

Description

Text menu, control panels, and settings is a sensible size. You can adjust the contrast.

• Text is in reasonable size device service resolution and typical vision

distance.

• The less letter is stylized or can be changed to a less stylized option (e.g., sans serif).

• It contains texts, or can be adapted to, a sensible contrast against all origins.

(See “Large and Clean subtitles” tag for text options)

Label

Large text

Description

In menus, you can use a large font size of the text in the control panels and settings.

• Text may be in size from the device screen resolution and typical view

distance.

(See “Large and Clean subtitles” tag for text options)

Label

Large and clean subtitles

Description

Subtitles are available for all conversations.

• Text is in reasonable size device service resolution and typical vision

distance.

• Transparency of subtitles can be adjusted.

• Subtitles do not match the important game items.

• The less letter is stylized or can be changed to a less stylized option (e.g., sans serif).

• This tag only takes an oral game conversation and does not contain text displayed for others

Audio, such as speakerphone tone or environmental sounds that are usually included

captions.

Label

Alternatives of color

Description

The color is not important information that can be communicated or adapted.

• Shape, model, icons or text is used to communicate information instead of color to communicate.

Label

Camera comfort

Description

There is no effect on camera, discomfort or damage (eg nausea, headache) or

These effects can be deactivated or adjusted.

• It includes “camera effects”, but it is not limited: shake, swing, bobbing, vague motion,

The speed of the camera, and forced to narrative-based movement.

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