Change Log

Updates

• Improved the text when options are Not Relevant to a game.
• Improved the text when options are Partially Supported in a game.
• Improved dozens of descriptions for game options to be more descriptive and intuitive.
• Added 7 new game options including Overstimulating Effects, Complex Inputs, Unskippable Cutscenes, Cross-Platform Play, and more.
• Fixed some mobile-design responsiveness quirks.
• Personal Scores should now always render in the Discover View correctly.
• Improvements to how notifications are surfaced on mobile.
• Improved spacing and styling on Developer and Publisher pages.
• Navigating directly to a genre category should now look and work properly.
• Numerous server updates for greater reliability.

Updates

• The flow to Log In and/or Sign Up has been redesigned to be both more visually appealing and more accessible. We love a win-win.
• Logging in and Signing Up now has improved screen-reader descriptions and element ordering.
• We've updated the main landing page with a new section clarifying our commitment to user privacy and secure data handling practices.

Big News

AbleToPlay is now in Open Beta! Anyone can create an account and get totally personalized scores for every game on the platform, based on their needs and preferences.

Please tell a friend about AbleToPlay to help us reach the gamers who need this free resource the most!

Updates and fixes

• AbleToPlay now has hundreds more games and improved game information.
• Numerous mobile-responsive bugs have been fixed.
• We have made additional updates to platform stability.
• When you have added Needs or Preferences to your profile, you'll get a new call-out that indicates where to Discover Games.
• We pushed more bug fixes than you can shake a stick at.
• We made updates to numerous parts of the interface to have more clear interaction states (hovering, clicking, NVDA focusing, etc).
• The quick-edit links in the user dashboard summary of Needs and Preferences now appropriately navigate to the correct category.
• Screen readers will no longer be "softlocked" during onboarding.
• Screen readers can now navigate using either the top or side quick-navigation menus on game pages to focus the appropriate category.
• We made dozens of spot-fixes for screen readers across the entire app. This is part of an ongoing effort.
• You can use Gifs as your avatar as long as they're under the size requirement.

New features

• Added hundreds of new games to AbleToPlay.
• Needs and Preferences now have subcategories!
  • As we continue growing our features, these subcategories will help you find the features that are most relevant to you.
• We have updated how scoring works to be more intuitive.
• Invite Code / Creator Codes: If you learned about AbleToPlay from a friend or content creator, there's now a place to indicate that in your profile.
• Magic Links: Don't want to deal with a password? You can now get a Magic Link sent to your email as an alternate way to sign up or log in.
• Password Resets: You can now change your password right from your Account Settings.

Updates and fixes

• Updated hundreds of feature logs on existing games.
• Made dozens of improvements to site accessibility.

New features

• Added hundreds of new titles to AbleToPlay.
• Added new features: Notifications, Badges, Accessibility Improvements, Community Contributor XP, and more.
• Added major new feature: User Submissions
  • On every category of needs on every game, you can now submit feedback to help ensure AbleToPlay is as helpful as possible for the community.

Updates and fixes

• Launched a new page for publishers and studios to learn more about AbleToPlay.
• Developed and bug-tested over 17,000+ new lines of code!
• Deployed new organization tools, portfolio pages, and workflows for publishers and studios.
• Deployed new moderation tools to ensure that AbleToPlay is as accurate and safe as possible.
• Hundreds more games have been added, with hundreds more undergoing reviews behind the scenes.
• Adjusted score calculation to be more accurate.
• Improved the visual styling of dashboard and profile UI.

New features

• Studios and Publishers now have their own pages, which show their collections of games.
• Added hundreds of new titles, more than 3X the previous amount of games on-site, spread across all genres.

Updates and fixes

• Made accessibility-focused content and styling updates to our Homepage.
• Fixed some minor performance bugs.
• Updated our Privacy Policy and Terms of Services to include direct links to our contact form, and clarity around our Paid Tester Program.
• Dozens more games have been added (with dozens more undergoing reviews behind the scenes!)
• Editing your needs will recalculate your scores for games. If anything doesn't look right, please let us know!

New features

• The Discovery experience is now much more personalized and ranks games by accessibility.
• The Discovery experience also now includes a robust search tool! Find any game you are looking for instantly, even if you don't type it perfectly.
• Added new genres such as Music, Party, Roguelike, and Walking Sim.

Updates and fixes

• Updated and refined our data taxonomy.
• Editing your needs and preferences has a new interface.
• Updated our registration and login system to be much more user-friendly, and to have more helpful error messages.
• Updated our moderator and game management tools to make it easier and faster to manage game data.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent some icons from loading.
• Updated the styling of the user-avatar area in the header navigation to be more clear.
• Updated the profile to have a dashboard with a summary of your needs and preferences, as well as some V1 areas for soon-to-arrive features.

New features

• The AbleToPlay Homepage has undergone a massive evolution, and now supports our full signup-system.
  • The homepage features many testimonials from our Beta Testers. To everyone who shared feedback during our Beta, thank you so much!!
• We published a new AbleToPlay About Page that tells the story of how AbleToPlay came to be, as well as shining some light on who we're working with to bring AbleToPlay to life.
• We published a new General Contact Page, Business Contact Page, and a Contact Page to Apply To Become A Paid Tester.
• The Discovery experience now has categories and sub-pages that can be browsed.
• Games now have a redesigned Personalized Scores area.

• We've made updates to our data taxonomy to include more Cognitive, Vision, Mobility, Auditory, Trigger, and Other quality-of-life features.
• Page and image loading has been significantly improved.
• The new site top-navigation has been updated with more accessible colors, adjusted placement, and other improvements.
• We made improvements to our back-end systems.
• When editing your profile, there's some updated descriptions and helper text, and the Save button has been moved to below your profile options.
• We've made a variety of improvements to the colors and styling of text and buttons.
• We've received reports of icons sometimes not displaying, and we're tracking down the root cause!

• New v2 landing page is live! This will evolve over time to feature previews of the different games categories.
• Discovery page has grown to 20 games, including Hades, Untitled Goose Game, Horizon Zero Dawn, and more.
• Needs and Preferences data has received some spot-updates.

• Support Center color values have undergone accessibility review for appropriate color-contrast, and have been adjusted accordingly.
• Support Center content has been updated and expanded. Hooray!
• Main site navigation has been updated on desktop and mobile.
• Update Call-Out component styling has been updated and now supports links.

We're kicking off the first week of October with an absolutely packed update.

• Users can now specify whether something is a Need or a Preference in their Profile.
• The personalized score algorithm now takes into account Needs and Preferences.
• Games can now Fully or Partially fulfill a Need or Preference. Games can also explicitly mark certain Need-types as "Not Relevant" to the game; for example, Thalassophobia support in a cozy inside-only cooking game.
• Developers and Publishers are now listed on all games.
• Under the hood, AbleToPlay has received a performance tune-up.
• More games have been added to the Database.
• The AbleToPlay Support Site has been built.
• The Accessibility Data itself has received an significant update.