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Xbox Accessibility Guidelines
Microsoft's game-accessibility guidance, developed with disabled players and industry experts, covers more than twenty areas including text, color, input, captions, difficulty, and communication.
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Why use it
Use Xbox Accessibility Guidelines to translate each guideline into requirements, acceptance checks, and defect templates before barriers become expensive to remove.
Where it fits
Use prototypes and playtests to find core experience problems while they are still cheap to fix.
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What to check
The guidance can inform any platform but is neither certification nor proof of legal compliance; projects should prioritize relevant criteria and still test with the affected players.