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Xbox reveals a huge new accessibility feature that puts Sony and Nintendo to shame

• A clickbait headline, no doubt, but an interesting announcement: Xbox are introducing a classification system to their stores (Xbox.com, PC, Game Pass), ‘tagging’ games with information related to their accessibility. This is to make it easier for disabled gamers to know whether a game supports their needs.
• “Testing of the feature is currently underway in the public Xbox Accessibility Insider League (XAIL) branch on all modern Xbox consoles. XAIL is free for all Xbox owners to join and is a group specifically designed for testing accessibility features in games and the Xbox operating system. It currently has around 60,000 enrolled members.”
• Microsoft has made this system quite strict. For example, for a game to be tagged as having accessible “subtitle options”, the game needs to do more than just ‘have subtitles’, as it must allow the subtitles to be customised and resizable to a minimum of 200% of their original size.

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