Why Accessibility Matters

Have you ever been to an amusement park with your friends or family, and because you are scared of heights, you have to wait by the exit of the parks giant roller coaster? Can you imagine that? What would you do while you wait? That is what happens to so many disabled gamers; while their friends go off and have a great time in the latest title from that summer blockbuster, they wait because more often than not simple "best practices" were not followed, leaving the disabled gamer waiting by the exit for their smiling friends to exit the ride. Once again, they missed a shared experience.

Accessibility matter because games matter. Video games offer people a way to connect that no other technology has been able to do. You can reach out and have a great time with someone in the same room, or across the world. Games are an escape, from bills, from work, from stress, from a disability. All of us use games as therapy in one way or another. Accessibility matters because the disabled community wants to be included, not excluded. They want to play the game YOU are playing, not one that is made for them.

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