Game Accessibility Guidelines

This Web site is a reference for inclusive game design.

It provides guidance, examples, and advice on how and why to make games accessible to gamers with disabilities and other impairments.

It's presented by members of the International Game Developers Association, Game Accessibility Special Interest Group.

To go to Game Accessiblity Guidelines, click here.

Includification

This Web site is a resource tool to answer questions you might have about adding accessibility to your games.

It provides guidance, examples, and advice on how and why to make games accessible to gamers with disabilities and other impairments.

It includes a downloadable FREE PDF of Includification, an excellent book, written by Mark Barlet, founder of AbleGamers Foundation and Stephen Spohn, Editor of AbleGamers.com.

It's presented by the AbleGamers Foundation.

To go to Includification, click here.

blindcomputergames.com

For people who are blind who use games for entertainment, education, or training, this is the place:

• To find out how to get that game you can almost play made accessible to you.


• To send developers when they ask "What would it take?"

For game developers, this is the place:

• To get information on how to make your games accessible to people who are blind.


• To learn how you can best get the user information you need to do this.

For any computer user who is blind, this is the place to send any developer of any software you use or would want to use, to answer their question, "What would it take?"

It's presented by 7-128 Software.

To go to blindcomputergames.com, click here.

Accessibility for Silver Users

This is an update to our ongoing research into the aging gaming population.

See the slides presented at the 2012 Boston Accessibility Group A11y Conference.

To see Accessibility for Silver Users, click here.

Gaming on a Collision Course

This paper addresses the changing U.S. demographics and their effect on accessibility issues in computer gaming.

It is based on research conducted by Eleanor Robinson, 7-128 Software Chief Operating Officer and Staphanie Walker, of the AbleGamers Foundation.

This paper is part of a briefing book accepted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

To see Gaming on a Collision Course, click here.

Inclusivity Talk

These slides are from a talk that Eleanor Robinson, 7-128 Software Chief Operating Officer, presented at the 2016 FIG Talks.

The talk gave 21 specific and practical ways to significantly increase a game's potential customer base by making it accessible to gamers who are older, color-blind, or disabled.

It addressed resources and strategies for reaching the approximately 60 million potential gamers who are currenly unserved.
To see the slides, click here.

Accessible Learning through Entertainment and Recreation Tools

ALERT is a set of resources intended specifically for educators. The purpose of this project is to save you time and money.

If you're interested in applying computer games in a learning environment for people who have special needs, come here to get:

• Where to get accessible games
• What features to look for when choosing accessible games
• Suggestions as to how to apply accessible games
• Whom to contact for help with accessible games

To access our FREE ALERT resources, click here.

DarkTimer - A FREE Self-Voicing Timer

DarkTimer is a simple timer that you can run on your computer.

You set the time, it speaks to you. You can set it to several levels of verbosity.

DarkTimer is self-voicing.

Note:

To use DarkTimer you MUST have the 7-128 Game Book or any 7-128 Software game installed.

That's because DarkTimer uses the same Java engine that the our games use.

To download the FREE DarkTimer program, click here.

DarkKeyboard - Identify the Keys on your Keyboard

DarkKeyboard is a simple program that speaks each key on your keyboard as you type, including the strange keys.

The nice thing about DarkKeyboard is that while you are running it, it intercepts your keystrokes and keeps them from doing anything at all to your computer, other than tell you what they are.

DarkKeyboard is self-voicing.

Note:

To use DarkKeyboard you MUST have the 7-128 Game Book or any 7-128 Software game installed.

That's because DarkKeyboard uses the same Java engine that the our games use.

To download the FREE DarkKeyboard program, click here.

DarkDice - Roll any number of dice with any number of sides each

DarkDice is a simple program that rolls any number of dice with any number of sides each.

DarkDice is self-voicing.

To use DarkDice you MUST have the 7-128 Game Book or any 7-128 Software game installed.

That's because DarkDice uses the same Java engine that the our games use.

To download the FREE DarkDice click here.

Color Blind Spectrum Charts

The British Telecomm Web site for a long time had some very useful color charts useful for developing software for people who are color blind.

They recently took those charts down. But not before we copied them to this Web site.

The charts cover all three major color blindness modes and include RGB values that can be put into user interface implementations.

We've used these charts ourselves to develop software that people who are color blind can use.

To view these color blind spectrum charts, click here.