He is blind. Play video games. Here’s how it works

So how are the decades of inertia in the sector interrupt? A lot of patience, he says minor. He observes how other disabilities activists did it for generations before him: he smiles a lot and explain the same thing again and again and again.

Minor’s first “work” was active Madden NFL 18“He gave his feedback on a rumble controller function and guided a seminar. His name is not in the credits and has not received money, only an offices tour and a signed copy of the game. (The developers asked him to do more consultancy, but he spent the concert to a friend; the least does not worry about football.) Although things have improved a little, this is not unusual for industry. Game Studios often hang “advice” concerts to disabled players, just to sit with a controller, ask them questions for an hour and then send them to their way with a gift card. Minor says that once he was asked by an AAA game study to travel through the city to their offices to play a game, but the payment offered was so low that he would not even have covered Uber’s tour.

It is a delicate dance. Minor, as well as other supporters of the disability with which I have spoken, whether for the blind players or a low vision, those with cognitive mobility or disabilities, or others, sometimes they typical to call studies with which they have had bad experiences. “There is the feeling that you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds on you,” says Minore. The concern, in other words, is that if disabled people are seen as “ungrateful” for what has been “given”, the companies will limit themselves to turning their backs.

In addition, it is not enough to simply be good at a consultancy work. To continue to convince the game studies that accessibility is a useful investment, you must also be a “lawyer” and this means being a public person. Or, in more relevant terms, an influencer.

This difficult panorama was something that one of the mentors of minors was an expert in navigation. Brandon Cole, better known online as a superblindman, was one of the best known blind accessibility consultants in the sector. A name has made itself not only incessantly friendly and optimistic, but also phenomenal in his work. When Xbox announced that his leading racing game Forza Motorsport It would be fully playable by the blind players, nobody was surprised that Cole had been involved. Cole also worked The last of us 2. He published regularly on social media, spoke in events and streamed on Twitch, all at the service of bringing awareness to the cause.

Cole died of cancer in 2024. Minor, like most of the community, was gutted. He had lost someone who considered a friend and a mentor. He also knew that he should have intensified and helping to continue the work he had left behind.

I already said Is that minor fun? I know it’s a bit of a cliché to tell a disabled person, but please leave me here: Ross Minor is absolutely fun. As we go home from the point of pizza, speaking with excitement, I bend under a branch of a tree. Minor … no. It strikes us. I feel terrible: I should have warned it. He shakes his head. “The only thing worse than being a blind boy,” he says, spitting a real leaf, “is to be a six feet-due Blind guy. “My type of favorite joke: the acute and uncomfortable type that depends on an experience that your audience will do so Never understand. The type that occasionally I say in front of my white friends to look at them twisting, uncertain, is allowed to laugh with me. I look less: he is giving me the same smile that he gave the lady to the pedestrian crossing. Finally I laugh and laugh. Ross, son of a whore.

Minor moved to Los Angeles three years ago, from Colorado, thinking that he could help his career. And he has – up to a certain point. “Things started to recover when it comes to consultancy and several concerts,” he says. “I feel like myself really traction.” But since so much of its success is linked to its YouTube channel, other problems arise. “Video editing is not accessible,” he says. “Create miniatures – you know, they say it’s the hook, right? – that things are not accessible.”