Are they retarded? Seems like the people who passed this have disabled brains...
Let's see...
- Input, control, and mechanical functions shall be locatable, identifiable, and operable in accordance with each of the following, assessed independently:
- Operable without vision. Provide at least one mode that does not require user vision.
- Operable with low vision and limited or no hearing. Provide at least one mode that permits operation by users with visual acuity between 20/70 and 20/200, without relying on audio output.
- Operable with little or no color perception. Provide at least one mode that does not require user color perception.
- Operable without hearing. Provide at least one mode that does not require user auditory perception.
- Operable with limited manual dexterity. Provide at least one mode that does not require user fine motor control or simultaneous actions.
- Operable with limited reach and strength. Provide at least one mode that is operable with user limited reach and strength.
- Operable with a Prosthetic Device. Controls shall be operable without requiring body contact or close body proximity.
- Operable without time dependent controls. Provide at least one mode that does not require a response time or allows response time to be by passed or adjusted by the user over a wide range.
- Operable without speech. Provide at least one mode that does not require user speech.
- Operable with limited cognitive skills. Provide at least one mode that minimizes the cognitive, memory, language, and learning skills required of the user.
- All information necessary to operate and use the product, including but not limited to, text, static or dynamic images, icons, labels, sounds, or incidental operating cues, [shall] comply with each of the following, assessed independently:
- Availability of visual information. Provide visual information through at least one mode in auditory form.
- Availability of visual information for low vision users. Provide visual information through at least one mode to users with visual acuity between 20/70 and 20/200 without relying on audio.
- Access to moving text. Provide moving text in at least one static presentation mode at the option of the user.
- Availability of auditory information. Provide auditory information through at least one mode in visual form and, where appropriate, in tactile form.
- Availability of auditory information for people who are hard of hearing. Provide audio or acoustic information, including any auditory feedback tones that are important for the use of the product, through at least one mode in enhanced auditory fashion (i.e., increased amplification, increased signal to noise ratio, or combination).
- Prevention of visually induced seizures. Visual displays and indicators shall minimize visual flicker that might induce seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy.
- Availability of audio cutoff. Where a product delivers audio output through an external speaker, provide an industry standard connector for headphones or personal listening devices (e.g., phone like handset or earcup) which cuts off the speaker(s) when used.
- Non interference with hearing technologies. Reduce interference to hearing technologies (including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices) to the lowest possible level that allows a user to utilize the product.
- Hearing aid coupling. Where a product delivers output by an audio transducer which is normally held up to the ear, provide a means for effective wireless coupling to hearing aids.
1.1) If you can't even see, WHY would you be playing video games in the first place?
1.2) Again, if you are THAT handicapped, you have no reason to be playing games, you got bigger things to worry about and on top of that such implementations require additional hardware just for them to be used!
1.3) If they mean games that simply use hues or have very limited colors, that's not hard to implement. People who can't tell colors apart can still differentiate them, just don't know what they actually are.
1.4) Games can be played without sound just fine as is 99% of the time, so why even mention this?
1.5) Should we include an "autoplay" too? Fucking hell, if you don't even have basic motor skills, just pick games with simpler controls, that's all there is to it, we can't be dumbing down games for the sake of "inclusion"
1.6) Same point as above, only I didn't know it took THAT much strength to press some buttons... Also, special controllers/keyboards are a thing already for such issues...
1.7) What a great idea, time to implement telekinetic controls, it's not like our technology on that is a
bit lacking:/
1.8) Again, why dumb down games? QTEs can be annoying but in some cases they are important in making the game feel natural (eg: The Walking Dead S1/S2)
1.9) Hardly any game uses speech to operate functions and pretty much almost all that do are Nintendo games
1.10) Just say it straight, you want a game for retards and not just one, ALL the games to be for retards! It's not like handicapped people or mentally challenged ones already got about 50000 different games that they CAN play that are meant for people with such issues, right?
As for pretty much all points in number 2, well, after they tell devs to do everything that will make games shitty, they then go and say "but also include everything you have already been doing"...
I'm kinda pissed because knowing how shit works, the EU could follow as they always follow with this garbage! NO GAME IS FOR EVERYONE, why can't people realize that? There are MILLIONS of games out there, MANY catering to handicapped people, this is just a new low for the US after taxing "fun"... Really feels like most things they do in the US lately are literally picked from a pool of random retarded ideas
