Nintendo Outlines Switch 2 Accessibility Features

Nintendo Switch 2’s accessibility options have been absent from the April Nintendo Direct, however the firm posted a brief overview on the console’s web site quickly after. Whereas the unique Switch’s options went little additional past the selection to alter the system’s button mapping, Switch 2 consists of a number of choices underneath a devoted “accessibility” submenu within the settings part.

Right here, you may change button mapping, but additionally enhance or lower textual content measurement and implement daring font to make textual content stand out. Switch 2 permits you to save button-mapping presets and add the function to the “fast settings” menu that opens once you maintain the house button, although Nintendo did not present what number of configurations it can save you to at least one account.

The subsequent setting modifications the system’s show colours. The default colour scheme appears to be a white background with black textual content, and you may select “invert colours” for a black background with white textual content and orange highlights or “grayscale.” The accessibility menu additionally features a zoom toggle that, when lively, permits you to faucet the house button twice to zoom in on a specific spot. You possibly can then transfer the zoomed-in display round with one of many Pleasure-Con management sticks.

The Switch 2 launches with 4 textual content and audio accessibility choices, one among which toggles audio to monoaural output. Textual content-to-speech will learn textual content from the house and system settings menu, together with cursor placements, and allows you to customise reader voices. Nintendo did not say whether or not any of its first-party video games, corresponding to Donkey Kong Bananza, will assist text-to-speech.

The final two choices allow you to convert voiced speech to textual content or written textual content to voice when utilizing the Switch 2’s GameChat function.

Within the final 5 years, Sony and Microsoft have launched adaptive controllers for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X|S. These equipment include customizable layouts and extra attachments so gamers with, for instance, cerebral palsy or quadriplegia who wrestle to carry a conventional controller can nonetheless take pleasure in their video games. Nintendo hasn’t launched an analogous controller for its methods, and the Switch 2 accessibility overview made no point out of plans to do this for the brand new console.