Re: should accessible steam games be added to the database
For me.. Steam isn't a game, it's separate from the games. At the moment Steam is a big barrier, but I'm sure there are people already who would like to know about games that they need sighted assistance to buy, but don't need sighted assistance to play.
Also it's worth considering that despite past form, some day Steam may become accessible. If it does, it would be useful to have those games already present.
Perhaps have them listed, but with some kind of note attached to them about Steam? Have them as a separate category, or with an asterisked note or something?
There's lots of talk here about the amount of work that has gone into talking to steam. The landscape has now changed, as of October Steam are legally required to make certain areas of the client (those relating to communication - party chat etc) blind-accessible, with fines of $100,000 per day for non-compliance (up to a maximum of £1m). It's the same law that covers the console operating systems, called CVAA.
It doesn't apply to the current client as that's an existing product that had been released before the compliance date. For for future major client releases it's something that they have to consider, and once the door is open to then having implemented some degree of accessibility into the client, it's not anywhere near as much of an ask for them to build on that and open up more areas of it.
So now is probably a better time to be having those kind of conversations with them than it has been in the past.
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