"I think video games, for a lot of people, are often about being able to do things that you wouldn't normally be able to do — experience great adventures. And so when you find that there are some people who can't enjoy those things, it's kind of crushing."
- Kevin Keeker, principal user experience researcher at PlayStation
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has a high number of accessibility options for a triple-A game, and a new story over at Polygon helps explain exactly why.
It turns out it goes back to a sequence late in Uncharted 2 that a disabled man couldn't beat -- which inspired him to start a website that rates games for accessibility.
We have some resources that can help you make your games accessible, too: This article suggests across-the-board improvements, with examples; this article offers discussions of the issues surrounding accessbility, and solutions developers undertook.
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