What Games Can Teach Us About Accessibility

Talk from ARCtic 2025 and Swift Heroes 2025

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3. Elementary
 Minute Asymmetric Subwords
5. Too complicated to make accessible
9. Give it another try
12. Thanks for implementing VoiceOver support in the game, I really appreciate it! 😊 I just spent some time playing and things work great I'm enjoying this a lot, so simple and accessible! I am enjoying testing this game! Looking forward to future categories for this game! Keep up the great work!
14. Klemens Strasser, BSc Unity Accessibility Toolkit Enhancing Accessibility of Video Games for People with Vision Impairments Master’s Thesis to achieve the university degree of Master of Science Master’s degree programme: Computer Science submitted to Graz University of Technology Supervisor Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc Pirker Johanna Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science Head: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Inf. Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt Graz, May 2021
15. Why is this knowledge relevant to iOS Developers?
18. What Games Can Teach Us About Accessibility
19. 5 Things
20. Image Credit: mygaming.co.za
21. Image Credit: mygaming.co.za
22. Image Credit: mygaming.co.za
23. Colors 1
24. Color Vision De fi ciency
25. 8% of all Males 0.4% of all Females Source: National Library of Medicine
26. Tritanopia Protanopia No CVD Deuteranopia
30. Tritanopia Protanopia No CVD Deuteranopia
31. Image Credit: EA
32. Theming System
37. Source: Paul Tol (https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/)
39. https://alexanderweiss.dev/blog/2025-01-19-effortless-swiftui-theming
40. Never use color alone to convey any information
41. Image Credit: GMTK
42. Image Credit: GMTK
43. Success Failed Success Failed Deuteranopia 􀁢 Success 􀇾 Failed Deuteranopia 􀁢 Success 􀇾 Failed
44. Fonts 2
56. Simpli fi ed Layout 3
57. Remove visual clutter Focus on what is important
58. Image Credit: Capcom
59. Image Credit: Game Accessibility Guidelines
60. Image Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
61. Image Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
63. Assistive Access
64. Image Credit: Apple
67. Sound Design 4
68. Image Credit: Warner Bros. Games
72. Don’t convey information with sound alone
73. Haptics (only available on iPhone)
76. Visualise Sound Effects
77. Directional Sound Indicator in Fortnite Video Credit: TobyWanShinobi
79. Onboarding 5
86. Colors Fonts Simplified Layout Sound Design Onboarding
87. Further Information
93. Thanks! strasser.app @klemensstrasser