Apr 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM Steam will soon make it easier to find games based on accessibility features
Steam has announced upcoming enhancements to its store and desktop client, aimed at helping players discover games with accessibility support. Game and app developers can now input accessibility feature details into the Steamworks edit store section. This update includes a new accessibility-support questionnaire designed to help developers better describe the accessibility features of their games.
Steam has been collaborating with developers and gamers with disabilities to ensure a more inclusive experience. The accessibility features cover various aspects, such as gameplay options with adjustable difficulty, audio features like custom volume controls and narrated menus, visual features including adjustable text size and color alternatives, and input options such as chat speech-to-text and text-to-speech.
Later this year, once developers have updated their accessibility information, Steam will display this data to users. Players will then be able to search for games with specific accessibility features and view these details on the game's store page.
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- Steam will introduce tags for games with accessibility featuresApp2top
Well, accessibility is very subjective, due to how much disabilities there is and how much people have one or many. Even getting a basic app with some accessibility is easy but getting it right is a full time job. As for video games, just trying to play any game without a gamepad or a keyboard/mouse but a screen reader or another other adapted device can from terrible to impossible. So yes, it's a good thing Stream is trying to improve the situation, but letting game makers estimate how much their game is accessible won't fix much, sadly.