Accessibility

World of Warcraft: The War Within will add a variety of features to the game, but they left a key concern out during the BlizzCon 2023 announcement: what about all those creepy spiders?

Though our understanding of sensation, stimuli, and pain is mostly in the trial-and-error stage still, the differences between boring, interesting, overstimulating, or painful are technically only a matter of intensity and degree.

The latest alpha build for World of Warcraft's forthcoming expansion Dragonflight included a new feature coded as "Soft Targeting." An alternative to the standard tab target or click-to-interact that WoW players have been using for years, the soft target feature will automatically target an NPC or enemy within medium range that your camera is centered on -- you don't have to get right in their face, thankfully, but casters and hunters will find it hard to start combat from maximum range with this feature.

I haven't exactly made it a secret that I'm playing WoW with declining vision, which causes photosensitive headaches and motion sickness.

World of Warcraft has added quite a few accessibility options over the years, from improved color blind modes to click and mouseover casting -- but that doesn't mean I can't think of a few additional changes that would be very helpful.

Video games and accessibility have been at the front of my mind for the past few years.

If you noticed that in addition to all the other Winter Wonderland skins and emotes Winston got a neat sign language emote, then you have Danik Soudakoff to thank for it.

Subtitles are finally coming to Overwatch, and are currently available to test on the game's PC PTR server.

I don't know how often I'll get to do a Diablo KYL, but in continuation of the first one we did, this week we're talking about the world of Sanctuary.

Colorblind support was added to World of Warcraft all the way back in Cataclysm, but it's getting a big revamp in the way of a facelift and new, better controls in patch 6.1. A new Accessibility section has been added to the Interface menu, and players can access three different accessibility options from the new menu -- the Movepad, UI Colorblind Mode, and Colorblind Filters.