Controls

We've documented 8 accessibility features for Controls in Pokemon Go! which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

1 Button: Can play with a single button.

Touchscreen

Can play with the following. Additional gestures may be required for games played with a screenreader like VoiceOver.

One Tap Anywhere: Can play with touchscreen, tap anywhere.

One Tap Targeted: Can play with touchscreen, tap in specific locations.

One Motion Targeted: Can play with touchscreen, tap and swipe or hold gesture.

Two Motions Targeted: Can play with touchscreen, two simultaneous taps, swipes or hold gestures.

Motion

Games that can be played with different sorts of motion controllers.

Motion Aiming: Can use small movements of the gamepad to fine-tune aiming or as the main aiming mechanism. This is sometimes known as Gyro-Aiming. This usually provides the ability to calibrate these controls to taste.

Button Combinations

Specific button operation required to play

No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).

Controller Vibration

Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls

If you want to play Pokemon Go!, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Controls accessibility:

• Craftopia (11 Controls Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Getting Started in Pokemon Go! which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance Getting Starting

These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.

Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.

Assistance For Progressing

These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Pokemon Go!, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

• Go Vacation (8 Getting Started Features)
• Pokémon Sleep (5 Getting Started Features)
• Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet (5 Getting Started Features)
• Pokémon Unite (4 Getting Started Features)

Navigation

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Navigation in Pokemon Go! which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Clarity

Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.

Head-Up Display

Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.

Menu Navigation

Menus Don't Wrap: Menus don't wrap and stop the cursor at the bottom of the list if you press down. Or menus do wrap but make it clear that you are back at the top of the list with sound or narration.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Pokemon Go!, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

• Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet (6 Navigation Features)
• Palworld (4 Navigation Features)
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus (4 Navigation Features)
• Ooblets (4 Navigation Features)

Audio

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in Pokemon Go! which deal with 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. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.

Play Without Hearing

Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.