Gaming (the Pandemic) with Vision Impairment: An Auto-ethnographic Account

Abstract

Games and game-based applications have become one of the main means of entertainment, education, socialization and many more aspects of contemporary life, especially so during and after the 2020 pandemic (Waters and Lewis 2021). According to conservative estimates, there are approximately 2.5-3 billion gamers in the world, i.e., nearly half the world’s population (Nast 2019). These estimates exclude users of game-based applications who are hard to account for but would significantly inflate this number. Of the gamers in the world, at least a third experiences a disability that affects or fully hinders their use of games (Aguado-Delgado et al. 2020; Brown and Anderson 2021; Daws 2021). ...