Accessible Gaming

The video game “Pong” was release in 1972, and ever since then, they have played a huge role in pop culture. These fantastic worlds wrapped in brightly painted plywood helped us escape our everyday lives to battle aliens and save princesses. If you had a visual, hearing or motor disability, you were not playing these games or not playing at the same level as your friends without disabilities. Video games are now played largely on game consoles, PC’s and mobile devices. Many games are still inaccessible to people with disabilities. This month, Gary Bartos and Matthew Shifrin are my guests, and we are going to be talking all about accessible gaming. What is it? How can games be made to be more accessible? And a whole lot more.