Simple considerations or design decisions that apply to many game mechanics, take very little effort to implement and benefit very significant numbers of people.

General

• Provide details of accessibility features on packaging and/or website
• Offer a wide choice of difficulty levels
• Ensure that all settings are saved/remembered

Motor

(Control / mobility)

• Allow controls to be remapped / reconfigured
• Ensure that all areas of the user interface can be accessed using the same input method as the gameplay
• Include an option to adjust the sensitivity of controls
• Ensure controls are as simple as possible, or provide a simpler alternative

Cognitive

(Thought / memory / processing information)

• Allow the game to be started without the need to navigate through multiple levels of menus
• Use an easily readable default font size
• Use simple clear language
• Use simple clear text formatting
• Include tutorials
• Allow players to progress through text prompts at their own pace

Vision

• Ensure no essential information is conveyed by a colour alone
• If the game uses field of view (3D engine only), set an appropriate default for expected viewing environment
• Use an easily readable default font size
• Use simple clear text formatting
• Provide high contrast between text and background

Hearing

• Provide separate volume controls or mutes for effects, speech and background / music
• Ensure no essential information is conveyed by audio alone, reinforce with text / visuals
• If any subtitles / captions are provided, use an easily readable default font size, simple clear text formatting and provide high contrast between text and background

Speech

• Ensure that speech input is not required, and included only as a supplementary / alternative input method