disabilities
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Microsoft Patent Imagines An Xbox Controller Customised For Gamers With Visual Impairment
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a big leap towards making gaming accessible to all players — not just those who can hold and manipulate the console’s standard controllers. Now it looks like the company is planning to expand its accessibility efforts. A Microsoft patent from last year reveals a special controller customised for visually impaired…
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How Children And Young People With Autism Can Learn Social Skills From Pokemon GO
As well as getting traditionally lazy, couch-bound gamers out into the real world to rack up steps on their fitness trackers, the world’s most newly-popular mobile game could be doing some genuine good to build social skills and interpersonal relationships. Craig Smith, an educator, researcher and autism expert, has built a guide for parents to…