Xbox Global Accessibility Awareness Day Celebration

 

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Today May 20, 2021, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), On this annual celebration of digital access and inclusion for people with non-ability. Many people face a lot of disability with technology and related opportunities . As a part of Global Accessibility Day, the tech giant Microsoft has been taken a big step to address these issues with accessories like the Xbox Adaptive Controller and make it more welcoming designed to the Xbox ecosystem.

 At 11 am PT, Thursday, May 20 a stream begins between  Tara Voelker and blind gamer extraordinaire Steve Saylor onto the Xbox Twitch channel to talk about accessibility in gaming for the celebration of GAAD. they are inviting people to join with them for talking about gaming accessibility.

 

Anita Mortaloni, Director, Xbox Accessibility told that she is honored to share the the work of Xbox team.   She told that the company is focusing their community on 3 different areas.

• Fostering a welcoming community via listening and support channels.
• Promoting Accessibility By Design.
• By enabling more gamers to play with expanded accessibility features.

She added, “We know that gaming has the strength to convey people together as a part of a network and connect throw shared stories”.

 

On Xbox blog, Anita Mortani announced Xbox Accessibility Insiders League (XAIL). This is the program where anyone who has a disability can get a simple guideline. And anyone can provide accessibility feedback directly  from not only  Xbox engineering but also game development team. XAIL is an open platform to connect with developers and share content With the XAIL community. They will make the Support page of XBOX is easier than ever. The landing page is restructured and refreshed accessibility is support on the Xbox Support page. Now it has easier to answer about disability to get feedback.

The Xbox Gaming Accessibility team has created a Gaming and Disability Player Experience Guide that outlines not unusual sport accessibility boundaries skilled with the aid of gamers throughout an extensive spectrum of disabilities, such as situational disabilities, which gives recreation builders tools and areas to don't forget while designing their video games. Accessibility guidelines had been updated, as properly, with greater guidance on things like display screen narration, problem, UI, and captions. In the future, there may also be birthday party chat options for each speech-to-text conversion as well as textual content-to-speech. Microsoft accessibility videos Are being found On The MSFT YouTubeChannel houses, in addition to content from Ability Summit and get knowledge about  Webinars and Gaming Accessibility.

Now the first party games are getting more accessibility features although. Gears 5 has  two new accessibility features like Navigating Ping of Escape Mode and Assistive Features in Higher Difficulty settings. Navigation Ping enables low, or no imaginative and prescient players to navigate the complex environments in Escape Mode. Disable Camera Shake and Target Lock had been applied in the game for all player-sorts in players as opposed to environment modes in Gears 5 to make it extra accessible.

 

Xbox is proud to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day and could keep to support the strength of play and make gaming accessible and welcoming to anyone. We are excited to percentage some examples nowadays of the way we're helping the network and the way you could too.

Xbox is proud to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day and will retain to aid the energy of play and make gaming reachable and inviting to every person. Team Xbox is sharing an ultra-modern wallpaper celebrating activity accessibility!

To know more about Global Accessibility Awareness Day Visit their official website.