{"id":7240,"date":"2023-10-22T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2023-10-22T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T19:12:59","slug":"diablo-iv-has-accessibility-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2023\/10\/diablo-iv-has-accessibility-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo IV Has Accessibility Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7243\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"handicapped parking spot\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pexels-jakub-pabis-11074317-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/disability-marking-on-pavement-11074317\/\">Jakub Pabis<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Diablo IV is the newest of the series of Diablo games created by Blizzard Entertainment &#8211; one of three companies that was recently acquired by Microsoft. Some players will jump right into Diablo IV without needing to use the many accessibility options the game offers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That said, some of us <em>need<\/em> to use some of these accessibility options. Here is a list of what you can choose to use that will help make Diablo IV adapt to your personal disabilities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Font Scale:<\/b> Choose from small, medium, or large (with the default set on large).<\/p>\n<p><b>Brightness:<\/b> There is a button called \u201cCalibrate Brightness\u201d that you can use to make it easier for you to see things in the game &#8211; and could be helpful for spotting enemies or getting out of the way of thrown weapons.<\/p>\n<p><b>Color Blind Filter: <\/b>There are three options:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Protanopia<\/b> &#8211; Difficulty distinguishing red light from green light<\/li>\n<li><b>Deuternopia<\/b> &#8211; Difficulty distinguishing green light from red light<\/li>\n<li><b>Tritanopia<\/b> &#8211; Difficulty distinguishing blue light from green light and green light from yellow light<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Screen Shake Effects: <\/b>The default is \u201cshow screen shake events on certain skills\u201d. You can un-toggle that if (what I call \u201cshaky cam\u201d) makes you feel ill.<\/p>\n<p><b>Combat Hit Flash:<\/b> This will enable hit flashes while hitting a monster or a player during combat. You can toggle that off, too. It is my understanding that flashing or strobing lights can cause harm to people who have epilepsy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Reduce Strobing: <\/b>This will disable several effects and lights in the game reducing the amount of strobing in the game.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a family member who has epilepsy? Flashing or strobing lights could cause them to have a seizure. This is also something to think about if you intend to put your Diablo IV gameplay on YouTube (for example). Those flashing or strobing lights can harm people who have epilepsy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Highlight Player: <\/b>The Highlight Player feature is a good one because it makes it super easy to figure out where your character is on the screen. Personally, I\u2019ve been using a green color that outlines my character. There are other color options as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>Controller Vibration: <\/b>Enable controller vibration &#8211; effects on certain skills and abilities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I play Diablo IV on my Xbox. One of the things I <em>hate<\/em> about playing on a console is when the controller starts to vibrate.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this bother me so much?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have a neurological disease called fibromyalgia which has no cure. The disease can inflict pain on various parts of my body without warning. As such, I make sure that my controller is <i>no<\/i>t going to vibrate while I\u2019m playing. There is a setting you can use to turn off the vibration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Screen Reader: <\/b>The screen reader can help people who are visually impaired, legally blind, or blind to know what the characters are saying in Diablo IV. In my experience, I\u2019ve noticed that some of the dialogue is NOT read out by a screen reader. Most of it is read out loud, though.<\/p>\n<p>The Screen Reader allows players to skip a line in the diaglogue. In my opinion, this can be really helpful if you are stuck on a quest that has a lot of talking. It also helps if you failed to complete that quest and just want to skim through the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The Screen Reader feature enables players to have the game describe text <i>and<\/i> interactive elements of the current screen. If I remember correctly, there are several languages you can choose from for your Screen Reader to read to you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While there are plenty of other features that a player can enable &#8211; or disable &#8211; in Diablo IV, I feel that the ones I\u2019ve mentioned here are likely to be the most helpful for players who have disabilities. The accessibility options in this game make it more possible for me to have a physically comfortable way to play Diablo IV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo IV is the newest of the series of Diablo games created by Blizzard Entertainment &#8211; one of three companies that was recently acquired by Microsoft. Some players will jump right into Diablo IV without needing to use the many accessibility options the game offers.\u00a0 That said, some of us need to use some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2023\/10\/diablo-iv-has-accessibility-options\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diablo IV Has Accessibility Options&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[352,368],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diablo","tag-accessibility","tag-diablo-iv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}