But what it does mean is that Starcraft II is getting closer to done, and so we started to ask what does this mean for the disabled gamer who want to play Starcraft II… who knows, Blizzard has been tight lipped on what to expect in this iteration of the StarCraft IP.

What can we expect on the Game  Accessibility Front?

If you will recall a few month back at Blzzcon we sat down with Chris Sigaty Lead producer of StarCraft II, one of the little tidbits that came out of that interview was the fact that Chris himself us colorblind.

In the final few minutes of the interview, we put him on the spot and ask him, "Why, if you are a colorblind disabled gamer, are you not pushing for this game to be colorblind friendly?"  Sigaty answered that Blizzard would love to put in every feature to the game as quickly as possible, and then almost nervously laughed that many many features are cut that should actually make it into the game sooner rather than later.

The way this played out does not make be hopeful that we will see some of the basic accessibility best practices will make it into the game.  If the lead producer’s disability is not going to be covered, what hope is there for the rest of the AbleGamers population?

So head on over to the Blizzard site and signup, you may get lucky and get yourself a slot in the closed beta. In the meantime we here at AbleGamers.com is going to start shaking some trees to see if we can’t get more info on accessibility now that the game has started to approach the store shelf.

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