[games_access] Big news out of GDC

[Ian Hamilton]

Oh and it all works across both Xbox and PC

Ian

From: Ian Hamilton
Sent: Thursday, 2 March, 17:22
Subject: [games_access] Big news out of GDC
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List

Microsoft have released a suite of accessibility APIs for game developers, available in the SDK now.

Two big ones:

Live text <-> speech transcription, meaning accessible multi-player chat for people who have difficulty with spoken or written communication.

Text to speech API for games, so you can make fully blind accessible UI by sending text strings to the API when UI elements receive focus.

Others too, the existing caption preference API is still available, and developers can now read players' preferences for high contrast mode.

Times are changing!

Ian

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