Accessible Games for the Disabled and Sight Impaired

By Disabled World - 2007-12-23 Find more articles like this in our Accessible Games category.

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Websites offering accessible games:

7-128 Software Simply Entertainment games

7-128 Software is dedicated to providing computer games that are entertaining, family friendly, affordable, and accessible to everyone.

They offer 9 commercial games and 5 free games that are playable by people who are blind. Most of the games are accessible to people with low vision and those who cannot easily use a keyboard or mouse.

Games include: the Inspector Cyndi in Newport series of interactive mysteries,  Tyler puzzle games, and our Woople word games.  All games are rated for accessibility.

The 14 BL (blind accessible) rated games work with JAWS 6, 7, and 8, and include free self-voicing. They also include F2-key Help, organized specifically for players who are blind. All games offer Big Type and High Contrast settings for visually impaired persons, and are compatible with Dragon Naturally Speaking voice input software. 7-128 Softwares accessible games

Alter Aeon is a free multiplayer game with thousands of places to explore, quests to complete, and puzzles to solve.

There are always other players on-line, whether for help, competition, or just to talk with. The game is also blind-friendly for the visually impaired however it does require a screen reader to play. One unusual thing about the game that may make it more worthy of inclusion is that it is one of the few games where blind and sighted players can play in real time, side by side, on equal footing.

arcess.com for free downloadable accessible games for children and adults.

The Zone BBS is an online community where you can meet new people, play games, and get away from the more stressful parts of life.
http://www.zonebbs.com

A site devoted to games specifically designed for vision-impaired and blind players.
http://www.omninet.net.au/%7Eirhumph/blindgamers.htm

This website is part of the Game Accessibility project, a research project that focuses on the accessibility of electronic games for gamers with disabilities.
http://www.gameaccessibility.com/

Download free accessible games and demo versions for blind and visually impaired people. You can play the sound games without special software and hardware. They also have some adaptive programs for blind and visually impaired children.
http://www.vipgameszone.com/

Through the AudioGames.net PlayCenter present a fine selection of accessible computer games.
http://www.audiogames.net/playcenter/

Chess - a universally accessible chess game, which can be played between two players, including people with disabilities (low-vision, blind and hand-motor impaired), either locally on the same computer, or remotely over the Internet. Access Invaders - a universally accessible version of the popular classic " Space Invaders" action game.
http://www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games/games.html

Sounds Like Fun is proud to present its second game, Descent into Madness, a horror-themed adventure game made accessible for visually-impaired people.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/et/2005/SoundsLikeFun.html

Draconis Entertainment delivers high quality entertainment products to both sighted and non-sighted persons, with a focus on accessible computerized audio games for the blind and visually impaired.
http://www.draconisentertainment.com

Sryth™: The Age of Igtheon is a FREE single-player browser-based fantasy RPG.
http://www.sryth.com/

Jim Kitchen's free blind accessible speech friendly pc dos and windows games
http://www.kitchensinc.net/

The Accessible Chess Tutor (ACT) is a software package that allows visually disabled people to learn and play chess.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/et/projects/GameChest/

SoundMind is a game much like MasterMind™ only it uses sounds rather than colored pegs. The game should be completely accessible to blind users with a screen-reader.
http://tim.thechases.com/soundmind/index.html

Garfield Star Sleeper Web site was developed to make sure that people who use screen readers can help Garfield solve Mission Z and play his other games.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/accessible.htm

Windows computer games for the visually impaired, without breaking the bank. They also offer some free games.
http://www.danzgames.com/

Metris is a Musical Tetris game. It does not interfere with or depend upon any particular speech engines. It just assumes a screen reader is present.
http://inspiredcode.net/Metris.htm

MarvelSoft have pioneered the art of developing easy-to-use talking software which is completely narrated with pre-recorded human speech.

If you know of any online free games that would suit people with disabilities then feel free to contact us and we will add them to Disabled World.

Also see our disability Games category