The impression I and some of my friends have is that a lot of the people writing about accessibility and Pokemon Go may not actually be playing the game; for instance, there's a persistent rumor that the distance measurements are based off of pedometers and won't work in a wheelchair that's completely untrue. (It's based off of a speed limit and GPS, so you can use it in a wheelchair, on a bike, or in a car if you drive slowly.)
There are obviously some amount of issues in the sense that the base concept of the game requires you to leave your house and some people can't, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to frame something like that as an access issue that was overlooked; compare to, say, all of the games that are made to use only the mouse or only the keyboard and are therefore inaccessible to people with various hand and wrist problems, which does not lead to anywhere near the amount of news articles.
I HAVE heard that it's totally inaccessible for blind players because there's no support for screen reading/etc, which sounds a lot more like a reasonable objection, but I can't personally confirm.
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Date: 2016-07-26 01:12 am (UTC)There are obviously some amount of issues in the sense that the base concept of the game requires you to leave your house and some people can't, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to frame something like that as an access issue that was overlooked; compare to, say, all of the games that are made to use only the mouse or only the keyboard and are therefore inaccessible to people with various hand and wrist problems, which does not lead to anywhere near the amount of news articles.
I HAVE heard that it's totally inaccessible for blind players because there's no support for screen reading/etc, which sounds a lot more like a reasonable objection, but I can't personally confirm.