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Definitely worth having a play Thomas, there's some similar stuff in there to in Terraformers 🙂<br>
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And yep they worked with one 100% blind consultant and two legally blind consultants, and did user research with a bunch more VI folk.<br>
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It isn't perfect by any means but it's a huge step forwards for AAA<span id="ms-outlook-android-cursor"></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:22:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thomas Westin <thomas@westin.nu>; Ian Hamilton <i_h@hotmail.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [games_access] The Last Of Us 2</font>
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Ian compiled a lot of the responses:<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ian Hamilton <i_h@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> games_access@lists.igda.org <games_access@lists.igda.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [games_access] The Last Of Us 2</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Very cool. I would like to know what the blind gaming community thinks of it;
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This is a biggie! Tons of accessibility accommodations, info on all of them shared before launch, including some video overviews.</div>
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