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Xbox adds accessibility options to PC app, Microsoft Store

All timed for Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Xbox has added new accessibility options to the Xbox app for the PC and the Microsoft Store, it today declared.

First, “a new update on the Microsoft Store on Xbox.com… allows users to filter and search games based on their accessibility needs and preferences, as well as search for games based on their Supported Language, with over 17 supported languages,” Microsoft said in a press release.

“The improved Xbox.com experience allows users to apply different filters, including 20 accessibility filters like difficulty settings and subtitles, to find their next great game across Console, PC, and Cloud.”

Users will also be able to take advantage of new accessibility options on the Xbox app for PC, allowing for the reduction of “visual components that could cause disruption, confusion, or irritation.”

Microsoft will also partner with accessbility-focused organisations like Korea’s National Museum of Modern of Contemporary Art, the Netherlands’ HiPerks Foundation and the Special Olympics.


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