> but for their never ending support on making sure “gaming” can be enjoyed by all.
Oh how I wish that was true. Steam's accessibility story is an utter and inexcusable piece of garbage. Using Steam with a screen reader is a constant struggle, to the point where people had to write guides [1] on how to go about this. It got a bit better recently, at least on Windows, Mac still sucks. There are plenty of Steam games that a blind person can play, sometimes natively[2][3], sometimes through special accessibility mods[4][5][6]. Not to mention the Steamdeck, which has no accessibility support at all, despite the fact that Linux screen readers do exist[7], and consoles like PS5 and Xbox implement their own[8][9]. Valve really doesn't care.
Oh how I wish that was true. Steam's accessibility story is an utter and inexcusable piece of garbage. Using Steam with a screen reader is a constant struggle, to the point where people had to write guides [1] on how to go about this. It got a bit better recently, at least on Windows, Mac still sucks. There are plenty of Steam games that a blind person can play, sometimes natively[2][3], sometimes through special accessibility mods[4][5][6]. Not to mention the Steamdeck, which has no accessibility support at all, despite the fact that Linux screen readers do exist[7], and consoles like PS5 and Xbox implement their own[8][9]. Valve really doesn't care.
[1] (outdated) https://www.mail-archive.com/audiogames-reflector@sabahattin... [2] https://blind.shadows1428.com/ [3] https://mortalkombatgamessupport.wbgames.com/hc/en-us/articl... [4] https://github.com/bradjrenshaw/say-the-spire [5] https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/16205 [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQC6TJkBElY [7] https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/getting-started-with-orca/ [8] https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessib.... [9] https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-acces...