How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy

throwaway2037 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Insanely cool blog post. I had no idea about the XBox Adaptive Controller: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...

I am surprised that we have not seen some sick setups shared on HN.

	▲	Agentlien 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When I saw the title I immediately thought of Xbox Adaptive Controller. It's such a cool initiative. Microsoft has a lot of really cool accessibility tools and services. For example their extensive usability guidelines, which is a massive set of documentation for how to make games more widely accessible. [0] They also have a great service where you can submit your games to get a report with feedback how to improve accessibility.[1] I read through one we got at my last job and it was really impressive. Very thoughtful and comprehensive. There's a hub with links to a lot more accessibility services as well. [2] Microsoft is one of the companies which really does a lot of great things in this space. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/guide... [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/mgats [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/acces...

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cobbzilla 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s so amazing how far assistive technology has come!

This is a fantastic article but I wish he would have included some wish list or constructive criticism, clearly there are areas of improvement!

But to discern an ask from his writings: At the end he mentions the complexities of working so many different purpose-specific tools— is this perhaps the next area of progress, tool integration and a cohesive experience?

	▲	Joel_Mckay an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There were FOSS Tongue-driven and Air-switch (Puff/Blow Morse codes) wheelchair control interfaces with generic USB HID mouse/keyboard emulation. They also have normal pointer interface modes with desktop and tablet OS (no janky software required.) The projects were necessitated because costs of medical-device regulatory barriers made hardware iterations economically infeasible to mass-manufacture. There were a few university faculties that would show up at community events to demonstrate DIY kits folks could put together with a friend. If these projects are no longer available, send up a flag and someone will spend a few weekends to bring up more open-hardware options. One can't legally sell these as a medical-device in most places, but there is likely nothing stopping a low-power hobby "game control" kit. =3

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Firehawke 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It occurs to me that some of this could be really useful to implement into SteamInput for players with disabilities. Someone really needs to show this article to Valve.

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DigiEggz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's really great to see paths forward despite extreme difficulties. My late friend would have been interested in all of these setups, especially the facial tracking. Thank you for sharing this.

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password4321 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are several Twitch streamers with similar setups.

It's discouraging when they haven't streamed for a while like NoHandsKen, though I'm surprised to not find any evidence of a couple streams 3-6 months ago.

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Boom890 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Glad he gets to do so.

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blinkbat 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

King shit.

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senectus1 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this sort of digital accessibility fascinates me. I'd love to get into working in that field.