Madden NFL 17 Accessibility Improves with Larger Icons, Colorblind Support & More

[jpdavis82]

EA Sports has improved accessibility in Madden NFL 17 with larger icons, colorblind support, 5 levels of brightness/contrast and more. If you want to request other accessibility options, make sure to tweet the team here.

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Any in-world icon that is prompting user interaction (pass, catch, tackle battle, etc.) will be about twice as big. Augmented UI banners will gracefully enlarge, but will still be prevented from filling too much of the screen. The kick meter is larger and it pins itself to the screen, instead of being placed in the world. These changes have been tested by internal Madden NFL developers that also have vision issues, such as macular degeneration. We estimate that over half a million current Madden NFL users are colorblind*. Bright primary colors are used all over Madden NFL, so there were issues with many menus and on-field art. Filters seemed to be a great way to go, as they cover the entire game, including all menus. Red, green, and blue weak colorblindness are all supported and tested, with great results.

Source - EA Sports

[GoJags904]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

https://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/...-accessibility Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is a very welcomed change.

[Cowboy008]

That's nice that they are making it easier for people to play the game.

[canes2008]

This is awesome I'm disabled and visually impaired and love madden


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[DeuceDouglas]

This is great. Other games have done this and it's good to see them stepping up to implement this stuff. Only change I would change is maybe allowing options for specific items. I don't have vision issues but I like the way the big kick meter looks and wouldn't mind using that by default.

[cthurt]

This is something I always wanted in sports game the contrast and brightness setting, huge move Madden hope other sports games follow suit.

[NateDogPack12]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes2008

This is awesome I'm disabled and visually impaired and love madden Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm going to send them a lot of positive feedback over this. We need to really praise them for considering visually impaired people. I hope this helps you enjoy the game more.

[charter04]

great additions. I like the larger icons because I'm getting older and like to play sitting on the couch further back. I am also color blind and am looking forward to using the color blind feature.

I also love the addition of brightness and contrast settings.

So glad EA is adding more options. Hopefully they add more for sliders too.