Video Games-- Access for All (TV)

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Additional Links

• Game Accessibility

  This website aims to inform disabled gamers about the availability of accessible games, and functions at the same time as an academic resource for developers, publishers and researchers in order to stimulate accessibility in games.

• Audio Games

  A selection of audio games for the blind and visually impaired.

• Game Accessibility Special Interest Group

  Game Accessibility Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association.

• KYE Enterprises

  KYE Enterprises makes video game controllers for quadriplegics.

• AbleGamers

  AbleGamers aims to create a safe space for gamers with disabilities to be able to find the game that is right for them, and help the gaming industry develop in ways that helps the disabled gamer.