Accessibility

Making a game accessible means ensuring that it is playable and enjoyable by people with a variety of disabilities or control preferences. A great many guides and sets of standards exist online to help you with this process. One such guide is Game Accessibility Guidelines.

Common Accessibility Concerns

Vision

• Color should not be the only way that essential information is communicated
• Create a strong contrast between text and the background
• Use a readable & accessible font and font size
• Space GUI elements well

Mobility & Reaction Time

• Allow users a way to continue through the game without playing minigames
• Allow remapping of controls
• Allow all functions to be accessed using either mouse or keyboard, to the extent possible
• Provide alternatives for holding down buttons

Hearing

• Provide subtitles or visual representations of sound effects
• Allow users to change the volume of different components (such as music, sound effects, and voice acting) independently of each other