Accessibility Dashboard
We work with developers and accessibility experts to record a detailed record of the accessibility settings and features in each game on the database. If you are a developer or have accessibility knowledge and would like to add to (or correct) this data please email our editor. Here are the games recently updated with accessibility data:
Here's a list of how many flags have been set against each item. You can select each one to see the list of matching games:
| Tag | Applications |
| Accessibility: We have a vast range of accessibility options documented for each game in the database. | |
| Difficulty: How you can adjust the challenge of play, and assistance the game offers when you fail or get stuck. | |
| Difficulty Options: | |
| Select Difficulty: Select difficulty from a range of presets. | 60 |
| Customise Difficulty: Customise different aspects of the game. | 35 |
| Competitive Difficulty: Difficulty not adjustable, because you compete against other players. | 17 |
| Adjust After Setting: | |
| Adjustable Anytime: You can adjust the difficulty while playing. | 8 |
| Adjustable Between Levels: You can adjust the difficulty between levels/rounds. | 18 |
| Cognitive Pressure: | |
| Reaction-time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions. | 77 |
| Low Pressure: Game tasks aren’t time-limited or with a high emphasis on performance. Or there is a low pressure play-mode available. | 89 |
| Adjust Speed: Adjust the overall speed of the game, or rewind play for a second attempt, to ease reaction times. | 36 |
| Save Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time, and not lose progress. | 63 |
| Assistance: | |
| View Control Mapping: You can view a map of controls during play. | 49 |
| Assistance When Stuck: The game notices if you get stuck and provides assistance, such as skipping levels, hints or tutorials. | 45 |
| Assistance With Controls: You can get the game to assist aiming, steering, reloading, jumping, running etc. | 43 |
| Assistance With Direction: Indication of where to go next with arrows, cookie trail and the like. | 35 |
| Rubber Banding: Trailing players are dynamically given an advantage, or the game gets easier if you die frequently. | 3 |
| Beginner Advantage: Select an advantage for weaker players | 1 |
| Practice Area: You can practice freely without opponents or time pressures. | 50 |
| Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials, instructions and tips. | 135 |
| Unlocking: | |
| No Unlocking Required: Access any mode, location, character, weapon or vehicle from the start. | 11 |
| Reading: How much reading or listening comprehension is required, and how accessible this is. | |
| Reading Level: | |
| No Reading: No reading is required. | 21 |
| Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. | 112 |
| Moderate Reading: Moderate reading required. | 60 |
| Extensive Complex Reading: Extensive reading required. | 13 |
| Text Visibility: | |
| Large Clear Text: Text is large and clear, or can be adjusted to be. | 111 |
| High Text Contrast: Text colour contrasts to background. | 88 |
| Subtitles: | |
| Large Clear Subtitles: Subtitles are large and clear, or can be adjusted to be. | 55 |
| Some spoken content has subtitles: Some spoken content has subtitles. | 7 |
| Any spoken content has subtitles: All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. | 128 |
| Captions: | |
| Speaker Indicator: Captions or icons and speech bubbles indicate who is speaking. | 43 |
| Speaker Indicator and their Tone: Captions indicate who is speaking and their tone. | 10 |
| Speaker Indicator, their Tone and Environment Sounds: Captions indicate who is speaking and their tone, game sound and music. | 9 |
| Voiced: | |
| Some Dialogue is Voiced: Some of the game dialogue and narrative is voice acted. | 26 |
| All Dialogue is Voiced: All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced. | 38 |
| Menus are Voiced: All of the game menus can be narrated for easier navigation. | 17 |
| Controls: How you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs. | |
| Gamepad: Required inputs for the game, or that can be setup with remapping. | |
| 1 Button: Can play with single button. | 15 |
| 2 Buttons: Can play with 2 buttons. | 6 |
| 1 Stick: Can play with 1 stick. | 3 |
| 1 Button & Single Stick: Can play with button and stick. | 17 |
| Multiple Buttons & Single Stick: Can play with multiple buttons and a stick. | 61 |
| Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks. | 81 |
| Mouse And Keyboard: | |
| Keyboard Alone: Can play with just the keyboard. | 44 |
| Mouse Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse button/mouse wheel. | 42 |
| Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys. | 105 |
| Mouse and Controller: Can play with mouse and controller simultaneously. | 5 |
| Touchscreen: Touchscreen controls for this game are: | |
| One Tap Anywhere: Play with touchscreen, tap anywhere. | 15 |
| One Tap Targeted: Play with touchscreen, tap in specific locations. | 16 |
| One Motion Targeted: Play with touchscreen, tap and swipe or hold gesture. | 19 |
| Two Taps Anywhere: Play with touchscreen, two simultaneous taps anywhere. | |
| Two Taps Targeted: Play with touchscreen, two simultaneous taps in specific locations. | 6 |
| Two Motions Targeted: Play with touchscreen, two simultaneous taps, swipes or hold gesture. | 7 |
| Motion: | |
| Motion Controls Available: You can use motion controls, tilting the controller to steer for example. | 16 |
| Motion Controls Not Required: You don’t need motion controls to play the game. | 23 |
| Motion Camera Optional: You can use a camera controller like Kinect or PlayStation Camera. | 2 |
| Remap Controls: You can customise the controls for the game as follows: | |
| Select Preset Controller Mappings: Select preset button layouts. | 20 |
| Remap Buttons: Re-map all buttons/keys. | 77 |
| Swap Sticks: Swap the sticks over. | 18 |
| Remap Sticks: Remap the stick controls to buttons/keys. | 15 |
| Remap Mouse and Keyboard: Remap mouse and keyboard. | 43 |
| Remap One Action to Multiple Buttons: Map multiple buttons to a single action. | 18 |
| Remap Game Menu Access: You can remap buttons to pause and access game menu. | 16 |
| Invert X/Y Axis: You can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. | 52 |
| Holding Down Buttons: Holding down buttons/keys to perform actions | |
| Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons not required or can be turned off or switched to toggling the action on and off. | 70 |
| Rapid Pressing Optional: Pressing buttons/keys to progress | |
| Rapid Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing not required or can be skipped or disabled. | 105 |
| Controller Vibration: | |
| Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it. | 88 |
| Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates aspects of the game, echoing visual and audio cues. | 17 |
| Sensitivity: You can adjust | |
| Adjust Mouse/Stick Sensitivity: Adjust how sensitive mouse/stick controls are. | 34 |
| Adjust Mouse/Stick Sensitivity, Deadzones and Thresholds: Adjust how sensitive mouse/stick controls are and the related deadzones and thresholds. | 16 |
| Image: How you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game. | |
| Visibility: | |
| Bright Colourful Palette: Game uses bright colours and is generally high contrast. | 120 |
| Large Game Elements: Game characters and other elements are large and distinguishable. | 100 |
| High Contrast Mode: You can adjust the contrast of the game to be high-contrast. | 44 |
| Outline Interactive Elements: Characters, platforms and enemies can be outlined for visibility. | 53 |
| Visual Distractions: | |
| No Flashes: No flashing strobe effects or you can disable them. | 62 |
| No Screen Shake: No screen shake effect or this can be disabled. | 81 |
| No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. | 52 |
| Audio Cues for Visual Events: | |
| Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. | 95 |
| Audio Depiction of Event Location: Indication with stereo audio of where directional events are on the screen for things like damage, footsteps, environmental elements or way-finding. | 13 |
| Motion sickness friendly: | |
| Motion sickness friendly: Option to reduce motion sickness (motion blur, depth of field, field of vision). | 48 |
| Colour Options: | |
| Colourblind friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colourblind friendly mode. | 86 |
| Colour adjustments: Adjust colours of characters or game elements for greater visibility | 25 |
| Head-Up-Display Visibility: | |
| Clear Interface: The game navigation, maps and information are clear to read, large or adjustable. | 115 |
| Adjust Head Up Display: Remove or resize head-up display to remove distraction and make more visible. | 29 |
| Play Without Sight: | |
| Play Without Sight: The game can be played without visuals. | 12 |
| Violence: | |
| Turn Off Blood: Reduce or disable graphic content of blood and gore. | 4 |
| Turn Off Dismemberment: Disable graphic depiction of dismembered bodies and corpses. | 1 |
| Audio: How you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see. | |
| Adjustable Audio: | |
| Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. | 129 |
| Customise Audio Levels: Control volume levels of specific events and elements in the game. | 47 |
| Audio Events: | |
| Visual Cues for Audio Events: Text or other visual indicators of audio events. | 67 |
| Visual Depiction of Directional Audio: Indication on screen with arrows, icons, located colour splashes and the like, to show where directional audio for damage, footsteps, environmental or way-finding sounds are coming from. | 22 |
| Play Without Hearing: | |
| Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well | 102 |
| Communication: How you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction. | |
| Player-to-Player Communication: | |
| Preset Chat: Communicate with other players with word-less icons, sounds or preset phrases. | 10 |
| Text Chat: Chat to other players by typing text. | 16 |
| Voice Chat: Chat to other players by speaking with headset. | 16 |
| Filtered Chat: Option to filter out profanity and/or sharing of personal information from online chat. | 9 |
| Convert Text to Voice: | |
| Text to Voice: Sent text messages as voice to other players. | 5 |
| Convert Voice to Text: | |
| Voice to Text: Convert voice from other players to text messages. | 5 |
| Ping Communication: | |
| Ping Communication: Send quick preset messages to teammates as safer alternative to open communication. | 4 |
| Total accessibility tag applications: | 3,957 |
Here’s a list of the games and the different accessibility areas they offer:
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