The new Xbox avatars got me thinking about the blind.

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An interesting read if anyone else is interested.

“There were all these musical cues and cues in the sound design,” says Kevin Satizabal, a keen gamer who’s been blind since birth. “You could tell when you’d picked up a star, or when the player was jumping, or when you picked up coins.” When you can’t rely on visual cues, having a different audio cue for each event in the game is more than just a bonus.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/13/video-games-that-let-blind-people-play