Making all of the accessibility settings fully customizable and open to fine-tuning by the player allowed everyone to find the perfect combination of options for their individual access needs. Diving into the accessibility menu in The Last of Us Part II is almost overwhelming, with so many toggles and siders to choose from. The designers had to give up their nice, tidy menus in favor of something a little messier. “‘We want to be able to dig into the menus, fine-tune things, adjust things, really get into the nitty-gritty of what these options mean.’” “Instantly we got feedback that ‘this is not what we want,’” Gallant explains.
The idea being that you switch on that mode and all of the related features will be enabled. There would be one for hearing impaired users, for instance, and another for issues around motor control. Initially, the team at Naughty Dog planned to have modes that covered specific areas. While you can read an in-detail breakdown of all accessibility settings in the game, what The Last of Us 2 creators did extremely well was not succumbing to the idea of ‘accessibility modes’.
Magnification and visual aids settings of ‘The Last of Us 2’ With more than 60 (!) different accessibility settings, the player can navigate the game almost exclusively by sound, remap every button on their controller or keyboard, or play the entirety of the game one-handed. The Last of Us 2, released by Naughty Dog in 2020, is the best example of accessibility in gaming to date. I think there’s a lesson we can learn from the gaming industry and their approach to accessibility when it comes to accommodating for different needs. There are too many different access needs & ways they combine for different people to accommodate everyone with a very specific set of accessibility improvements designed to only address certain types of access, especially when those ‘improvements’ are forced across the board at a very large scale. I think it’s awesome that they’re continuously working to improve the app’s accessibility and some issues were definitely addressed with this release.īut… How does an accessibility update make the product less accessible for some users? Does all of the above mean that Twitter’s new update is bad? No.
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