I can’t imagine my life without video games. But not everyone gets to enjoy building virtual houses and pestering Creepers with the happy abandon that I do. In fact, there are barriers that prevent some people from being able to play games at all, including Minecraft, and the majority of us probably don’t even notice. But SpecialEffect, a charity based in the UK, does. It makes games like Minecraft more accessible to those who want to play, but can’t.
“We help people with all kinds of physical disabilities to play video games,” says Mark Saville, who handles communications for SpecialEffect. “There are so many people out there who can’t play normal games, like football, cricket or rugby, and they can’t even play the online versions either. We’re trying to right the second half of that equation. We get them to play online.”
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