{"id":75063,"date":"2023-09-12T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/forza-motorsport-opens-up-accessibility-with-blind-drive-assist\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:43:41","slug":"forza-motorsport-opens-up-accessibility-with-blind-drive-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=75063","title":{"rendered":"Forza Motorsport Opens Up Accessibility With Blind Drive Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Recent Forza<\/em> games have been trailblazers for upping the ante when it comes to accessibility. 2021’s Forza Horizon 5<\/em> came with in-game sign language for cinematics<\/span>, and a time-slowing option for those with slower reaction times<\/span>. Incredible stuff. This October\u2019s Forza Motorsport <\/em>is aiming to push the boundaries even further, introducing a mode designed for blind players, called Blind Drive Assist<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The Open World Racing Game That’s Been Gone For A Decade Is Coming Back<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Steve Saylor, a blind games player, has recently tested it out, and tweeted<\/a><\/span> to describe how the suite of audio cues and customizations work.<\/p>\n

The ensemble of aural guidance appears to combine the co-driver spoken guidance more familiar to rally driving games, in which upcoming turns are described, along with what essentially boils down to sophisticated sonar. A collection of bleeps, bloops and tones that tell a player where their car is on a track relative to its sides and turns, and when they need to brake or accelerate.<\/p>\n

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