On January 2, the AbleGamers Foundation gave FIFA 13 the honor of most Accessible MainStream Game of the year 2012. FIFA 13 offered some of the more severely disabled gamers a way to enjoy the excitement one of most popular games around the globe.
“AbleGamers was amazed by the accesibility of FIFA 13, commented Mark Berlet, President and Founder of the AbleGamers Foundation. “EA enabled gamers with severe motor and cognitive disabilities by including remappable keys, an unheard-of mouse only mode and game settings that allow the entire game to be tailored to the unique abilities of each disabled gamer.”
Barlet continued, “We are delighted and honored by how approachable EA has been. They really took the principles of our game accessibility guidelines, Includification , to heart. We are starting to see some real fruits of our labors preaching accessibility over the last decade. I’m personally thrilled to see big-name studios listening to our advocacy for the disabled community in the gaming industry.
“There’s just not enough you can say about a game like FIFA 13,” stated Editor-In-Chief of AbleGamers.com and community Outreach chair for the foundation, Steve Spohn. “Such a large portion of our community is ecstatic over the ability to play a genre of game that’s mostly inaccessible due to the number of controls needed and fast-paced action. The mouse mode is phenomenal for those with muscular dystrophy, and the ability to slow down the entire game is such a boon for the cognitively impaired.”
EA will be presented with AbleGames annual award at a gaming conference later on in the new year. Honorable mentions also went out to 2K Game’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown and indie game Colour Blind.
For the full story on the award winner, honorable mentions, and reviews of all the nominated games, plus games that failed AbleGames’ accessibility test, just visit AbleGamers.com
