AbleGamers' New Program Places Accessibility Experts Into Dev Teams

Disabled Gaming charity AbleGamers is looking to put accessibility experts in Triple A game development studios as part of their latest efforts.

AbleGamers CEO Mark Bartley recently spoke with PocketGamer.biz about their plan. The charity recently published their own website, accessible.games, for connecting developers to accessibility experts during development.

Now they're adding a new section to the site. This new section will place Accessible Player Experience (APX) experts directly into development teams so that they can assist in making an in-development game playable by those with restrictions and disabilities.

"The next big thing we're working on is we are launching a certification program aimed at the industry called Accessible Play Experience practitioners. . . We've found that once we embed champions within the studio space, accessibility becomes a really cheap thing to add."

Mark Bartley

Often times, games unintentionally overlook various disability restrictions. This ranges from not including colorblind support to not supporting alternate control schemes.

AbleGamers is a fantastic organization and this is just one example why.