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The Continual Reinvention of User Experience
I genuinely believe that accessibility in board games is the single most interesting usability problem domain that exists. It’s a completely different beast from video game accessibility. Just as inaccessibility is bound up in fun, complexity of inaccessibility is an unavoidable side effect of what a board game is. Within video game accessibility, we have some constants that make life easier.
