Consoles and game developers have been created, such as Microsoft, Nintendo and Electronic Arts New initiativeIt is controlled by the software association for entertainment programs (ESA), the purpose of which is to facilitate to find out what games are available.
The new initiative “Available Games” determined a set of 24 tags of accessibility that will appear on participating game windows and pages of the product so that players can know what functions play in the game before they buy it. Tags easily understand the definitions and cover a number of accessibility functions, such as subtitles, reprinting input for management elements, text into and speech in the chat and in the told menu. All tags and definitions Available for viewing On the web site “Available Games” initiatives. ESA also states that it will provide developers with criteria for tags so that they can develop their accessibility functions.
New tags are intended for coexistence with existing information about accessibility on the pages of the product, but some companies can choose focus exclusively on the new standard of “interpromising”. For example, Microsoft plans In order to “replace the existing tags of the Xbox Game accessibility functions with their equivalent tags of initiatives about equivalent games” in order to avoid duplication, while maintaining their own tags, which are not in the list of initiatives.
The idea for the “Available Games” initiative was first developed by Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo of America, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Ubisoft, according to ESA, and new companies have joined the launcher such as Amazon Games, Rioot Games, Square Enix and Warner Bros. Games “.
The proposal of some standardized way to find out what access functions have in the game is desperate. While the developers became better in a sentence of accessibility in their default games, players interested in a specific function should mainly rely on third -party resources, such as Can I play this? Find out how well they were interpreted and implemented. These tags should start correcting this.
The only open question is when they will be accepted. Eka told Grave The fact that “a temporary scale for the implementation of tags depends on the company”, which means that players can be in the hope of using the work “Available Games”.