Making the game accessible for those who can’t use their hands.
The past few years have seen some incredible leaps and bounds in technology, and many of those improvements have been focused around accessibility. You may remember the story about inclusivity advocate, developer, artist, and gamer Becky, AKA EyeGazeGirl, who hooked up the Xbox adaptive controller to Animal Crossing: New Horizons so she could play it with her chin.
Well, Becky is back, this time as one of the testers for UK charity Special Effect’s EyeMine V2 – free software that lets people play Minecraft with their eyes. Special Effect works with physically disabled people, helping them play video games in whatever way they can, including working with developers to make their games more accessible in general. Their past projects include one-handed controllers, voice-controlled games, mouth-controlled games, and many more input devices suited to the individual.
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