[games_access] The Last Of Us 2

[Ian Hamilton]

Definitely worth having a play Thomas, there's some similar stuff in there to in Terraformers 🙂

And yep they worked with one 100% blind consultant and two legally blind consultants, and did user research with a bunch more VI folk.

It isn't perfect by any means but it's a huge step forwards for AAA
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From: Berg, James <jamesberg at ea.com>
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Subject: Re: [games_access] The Last Of Us 2

Ian compiled a lot of the responses:
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/IanHamilton/20200714/366315/Gamer_response_to_TLOU2s_accessibility.php<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2Fblogs%2FIanHamilton%2F20200714%2F366315%2FGamer_response_to_TLOU2s_accessibility.php&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46775971e4064ae1a08908d829ce670a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637305313748650010&sdata=j3nPGDkTsNNiZEErr%2BZUa4RcqPX3I9g%2FI0mqhmoYoag%3D&reserved=0>


Cheers!

James Berg  (he/him)

Senior UX Researcher

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Subject: Re: [games_access] The Last Of Us 2

Very cool. I would like to know what the blind gaming community thinks of it;
I suppose some blind gamers have been involved in the design process?
/thomas

On 9Jun 2020, at 23:38, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com<mailto:i_h at hotmail.com>> wrote:

This is a biggie! Tons of accessibility accommodations, info on all of them shared before launch, including some video overviews.

The features include it being fully accessible to blind gamers through audio/haptic cues and text to speech, which I believe is a first for a AAA.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/the-last-of-us-part-ii-ps4/accessibility/<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.playstation.com%2Fen-us%2Fgames%2Fthe-last-of-us-part-ii-ps4%2Faccessibility%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C46775971e4064ae1a08908d829ce670a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637305313748650010&sdata=jxW9LztFIb5gWCqRtuDgBWR0EN2Ux6ZX5yXra5ifb84%3D&reserved=0>

Ian
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