343 Industries has detailed some of the accessibility features that have been added to Halo Infinite to make it a better, more inclusive game.
343 Industries has detailed some of the accessibility features that have been added to Halo Infinite to make it a better, more inclusive game for as many players as possible when it launches later this year. The features were outlined as part of a recent Xbox Accessibility Showcase, which also announced wider improvements to accessibility across the Xbox platform. Paige Johnson, UX/UI producer at 343 Industries, explained that when it comes to accessibility in Halo Infinite, the team at 343 “knew we needed to be intentional about including the gaming and disability community, so that we weren’t being unintentionally exclusive.” “Inclusion is core to the Halo Infinite experience,” 343 Industries writes in an Xbox Wire post, “and in recognition of that, the team built in new features to enable people to customize their Halo Infinite gameplay experience.” The features are wide-ranging and include subtitles that are on by default, with adjustable font sizes, options to change background opacity and to enable color-coding per speaker in dialogue. Adjustable font size is not limited to the game’s subtitles and can be controlled across the game’s menus, which also have a new menu narration feature with adjustable speed and volume. A linear navigation feature will allow players to move through the UI without needing to visually see how controls are positioned on screen and HUD opacity adjustments have been added to make elements more visible for low-vision players. For color blind players, there’ll be more options than just red and blue when it comes to friendly and enemy colors. Players will also have more control over their audio experience in the game, with a range of volume sliders as well as new text-to-speech and speech-to-text options for those participating in voice chat.
