Graham Race of MERU kindly pointed me in the direction of an interesting Radio 4 “In Touch” item on Accessible Gaming. It reflects the experiences of many blind and partially-sighted gamers. Seems Mortal Kombat can work out as a playable…
7-128.com: Top Accessible Gaming Sites Lists
7-128.com have just published three top accessible gaming sites lists: Top 25 Web Sites for Gamers who are Blind; Top 20 Web Sites for Gamers who are Motion Impaired and Top 10 Web Sites for Gamers who are Deaf. Fantastic…
Martin Tall on Gaze Interaction
Martin Tall has a very informative blog on Gaze Interaction with the use of eye-trackers. There’s some very useful posts on games as well as an excellent “inspiration” tag including details of how multi-step zooming methods massively increase accuracy.
Eye Gaze in Practice Study Day – London
Eye Gaze in Practice Study Day – 19 March 2009, Bloomsbury, London: Following Communication Matters’ successful Eye Gaze study day in 2008, this day has been designed for people who want to explore in greater depth some of the issues…
Global Assisitve Technology Wiki
AbilityNet have put together a wonderful open project called the Global Assisitve Technology Wiki or GATE for short. In their words: “GATE is actually a Wiki, which is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and…
Mystic Mine – Multiplayer One Switch Game
Just released this February – Mystic Mine is now available to buy on-line at Koonsolo for $19.95 (use www.xe.com for a currency conversion). It’s massive fun as a multi-player game and highly recommended by OneSwitch.org.uk. If I had an all…
Subtitles: Increasing Game Accessibility
Gamasutra have published an excellent article that presses home the benefits of including full subtitles (aka Closed Captions in the USA) in video games. Read on here.Link via: Reid Kimball. More on the meaning of 888 here.
Sip/Puff Mobile Phone Games?
“Pantech is one of three giant mobile phone manufacturers in Korea, among them Samsung and LG. Pantech sold over 10 million phones internationally in 2008, and under the “Sky” brand in the local market. Now, it’s about to launch a…
Game Forward Interview: OneSwitch.org.uk
Nathalie Caron of the splendid “Game Forward” has posted an article about OneSwitch.org.uk after interviewing me earlier this year. She’s edited it down nicely to make it seem like I don’t witter on too much. Appreciated!
Stevie Wonder calls for accessible technology
Stevie Wonder is calling for greater access in technology: “ being more accessible is always a plus and I think really, for various companies … making it exciting and accessible for people who can see, it would take very little…