Board Game Arena

Okay actually I'm seeing now in the studio guidelines wiki they added an accessibility section in January!! It's pretty limited but definitely a good step in the right direction. I'm also realizing that anyone can edit the wiki, I don't know if that's new or I just never noticed 😅 so I may try to ad...

Hi all! A while back I posted asking about existing accessiblity best practices/resources for BGA development, and didn't get a lot of responses, nor could I find any existing resources, so I decided to put one together myself: Accessibility Guidance for Board Game Arena Development (WCAG-Based) I’m...

I want to add something to this topic. For background, I'm am a front-end developer professionally, and making accessible user interfaces is really important to me. I've also developed one game for BGA (Deus, if interested - don't expect that to be any more accessible than the others though I'm afr...

There was a forum thread that was started by a blind user, trying to play Amalfi. They brought up some interesting insights and found similar problems in usability. I can't even start to understand just how difficult it would be to try and do that. I did look into it a little bit for my own game, I...

It's definitely in interesting subject, and we hope we can do better for accessibility in our games! So far I just replaced in the framework buttons created as links (this.addActionButton) by real buttons (this.statusBar.addActionButton) so it's less confusing for screen readers, but it's a really ...

Hi everyone! I’m currently helping develop a game on BGA Studio, and I realized that (like most games on the platform it seems) it isn’t possible to navigate or play using the keyboard alone (e.g. you can't tab through elements on the page). I’d really like to make sure the game I’m working on is ac...