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Game accessibility guidelines

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Happy Wars instructions

Happy wars in-game instructions
Text on a high contrast background with solid outline around the lettering, the key words highlighted in yellow, and back/next buttons to progress back/forwards through the screens of text

Example of:

  • Allow players to progress through text prompts at their own pace
  • Highlight important words
  • Provide high contrast between text/UI and background

All guidelines

Three cogs, smallest coghighlightedBasic
Three cogs, medium sized cog highlightedIntermediate
Three cogs, largest cog highlightedAdvanced
Three cogs, all  highlightedFull list
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How to work with these guidelines

FCC Chairman's Award for Advancement in Accessibility
finalist 2016, tiga games industry awards
DFA foundation best practice award, Horizon Interactive Bronze Winner, 7-128 industry & community leader

About the guidelines

A collaborative effort between a group of studios, specialists and academics, to produce a straightforward developer friendly reference for ways to avoid unnecessarily excluding players, and ensure that games are just as fun for as wide a range of people as possible.

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