Microsoft created a gaming controller for people with disabilities

A push to make technology more accessible

Microsoft created a gaming controller for people with disabilities
Stars Insider

17/05/18 | StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Video games

Microsoft revealed a new gaming controller that enables people with disabilities to play video games. The Xbox Adaptive Controller is a tech accessory that allows users with limited mobility to be able to play on both Xbox One and Windows PCs.

“In our inclusive design, instead of targeting the majority, or the 80 percent, we target the outliers,” Bryce Johnson, the lead of the project, said in a briefing, according to Vulture Beat. “Nineteen percent of the population has some kind of disability. That can expand to 38 percent for the temporary or situation. Twenty-six thousand people lose a limb every year. Thirteen million break an arm. We think about our products inclusively. This was just the right time.”

As preserving fairness and gaming integrity was an integral part of the design, the Microsoft team set out to create an adaptive accessory that would correspond directly to all of the buttons on a traditional controller.

Yaron Galitzky, the general manager for Xbox Accessories, told Vulture Beat that “This is an addition. It doesn’t take away from anyone else’s experience. And it enables people to do the exact same things that every other player is doing. It does not give them an advantage.”

Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller is now available for $100.

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