After decades of little support, the gaming industry has recently started bringing in more tools to help disabled gamers play and experience games. Things like different controller layouts, reduced quick time events, color blind settings, and much more. It would appear Xbox is the next company to make disabled gamers feel more comfortable with their gaming experience.
For years, Xbox Live has allowed players to express themselves through customizable avatars. You can buy a wide variety of clothes including outfits of iconic pop culture characters and icons, props that animate your avatar to do crazy things like fly across the screen, and much more. Some games on Xbox 360 even allowed players to play as their avatar! Microsoft has sort of shoved their priorities for avatars aside for Xbox One and hidden it away but it seems like they may be making a come back in a massive way.
Mike Ybarra from Xbox tweeted out an image of redesigned avatars sitting in wheelchairs after a fan questioned if wheelchair accessible avatars are in the works. It's unclear when this is going to release but one can only guess this will come in the massive system update promised for this fall.
