If you can’t play it, you can’t take it back. You’ve wasted the money. Four times we’ve had unplayable games we can do nothing with.
Gareth Garrett, via PC Gamer
Buying a game only to find out that you can’t play it is a real issue, easily solved by just letting people know what features are in a game. Without that, the work on those features may well go to waste.
Mentioning key accessibility features online also gets you extra search engine traffic, for example from people searching Google for colour-blind friendly games, and greater visibility of your efforts with the press. Including just a single bullet point on colourblind mode in their presskit resulted in Hue’s colourblind mode being picked up on and praised in around 20 reviews, bumping their metacritic score into the green.
A standardised symbol has been developed to indicate that accessibility information is present. Use of this will aid recognition.
Best practice examples:
- Fate Tectonics website
- Final Fantasy XV manual
- Legacy of the Elder Star trailer
- Steam subtitle & caption information
- UNCHARTED 4: A Thief's End
Additional information
Category & Level:
- General (Basic)